Liturgical Prayers

Preces liturgicae · Leo VI the Wise · c. 886-912 (emperor 886-912) · liturgy

Greek · domain: hymnography · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

PG 107's contents list, under 'LEO IMPERATOR, COGNOMINE PHILOSOPHUS, VEL SAPIENS', gives 'Preces liturgicae, ex antiqua Collectione liturgica Venetiis edita 1554' and a separate 'Canticum compunctionis ex meditatione aeterni judicii', both printed with Latin translation: https://archive.org/download/patrologia-graeca_202105/107.pdf. HOLLIS Primo 'Leo VI the Wise hymns' and 'Leo VI Byzantine hymnography' return nothing relevant (checked 2026-11-13). The only English renderings of any Leo VI liturgical text located are three of his Transfiguration homilies in PPS 48 (Daley, 2013), which are homilies, not these prayers.

In English Leo VI appears only as a homilist, through three Transfiguration homilies in PPS 48; his liturgical prayers are not translated. The 'Preces liturgicae' of PG 107, drawn from a 1554 Venetian liturgical collection, are untranslated; so is the 'Canticum compunctionis'.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
other · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1863); Internet Archive scan patrologia-graeca_202105/107.pdf (PG 107)

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Leo VI the Wise Liturgical Prayers — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
Kurt Weitzmann photographs of manuscripts, approximately 1980-1999 Weitzmann, Kurt, 1904-1993 · 1980-1999 · eng	Weitzmann, Kurt, 1904-1993. "Kurt Weitzmann photographs of manuscripts, approximately 1980-1999." 1980-1999. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990142835470203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Liturgical Prayers” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-leon-vi-preces-liturgicae