The Benedictional of St AEthelwold

Benedictionale S. AEthelwoldi · Anonymous (scriptorium of Winchester, for Bishop AEthelwold) · 963-984 · liturgy

Latin · domain: latin-liturgy · researched 2026-11-14

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

HOLLIS 'benedictional Aethelwold' returns 23 records and none of them is a translation; they are facsimiles, art-historical studies and manuscript descriptions: the 1832 volume on the manuscript, the Roxburghe Club facsimile 'The benedictional of Saint AEthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, 963-984' (1910, Latin), the British Library facsimile of 2002 (Latin), Robert Deshman's monograph 'The Benedictional of AEthelwold' (Princeton, 1995) and the 1959 Faber facsimile (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,benedictional%20Aethelwold&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 None carries an English translation of the episcopal blessings. The blessings themselves are edited in Latin in the facsimile volumes, and no English rendering of the collection was located in HOLLIS.

The richest surviving Anglo-Saxon benedictional and one of the great illuminated manuscripts of the tenth century: a full set of blessings for the liturgical year, composed in elaborate prose and verse, that are a major monument of Anglo-Latin prose style as well as of the Benedictine reform. Because it is famous as art, it is studied as art; the texts, which are the reason the book was made, have never been translated, so an English reader can see the pictures but not read the blessing.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

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: "The Benedictional of St AEthelwold" — 6 record(s); match basis author_title.

Record	Citation
The benedictional of St. Æthelwold : a masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon art : a facsimile · 2002 · lat	"The benedictional of St. Æthelwold : a masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon art : a facsimile." London : British Library, 2002. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990089305430203941
Benedictional of St. Aethelwold English school, 10th century · 963-984 ·	English school, 10th century. "Benedictional of St. Aethelwold." 963-984. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork53472/catalog
The benedictional of St. Æthelwold, Bp of Winchester : an illuminated Anglo-Saxon ms. of the tenth century, in the library of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire · 1832 · eng	"The benedictional of St. Æthelwold, Bp of Winchester : an illuminated Anglo-Saxon ms. of the tenth century, in the library of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire." London : J. B. Nichols and Son, 1832. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990072891490203941
Benedictional : manuscript, [ca. 900 - ca. 950] · 0900-0950 · lat	"Benedictional : manuscript, [ca. 900 - ca. 950]." 0900-0950. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990098884930203941
Bishop Aethelwold : his career and influence · 1997 · eng	"Bishop Aethelwold : his career and influence." Woodbridge, Eng. : Boydell Press, 1997. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990075485530203941

Sources checked

HOLLIS search — benedictional Aethelwold

Cite: Tergwame, “The Benedictional of St AEthelwold” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-anon-benedictionale-aethelwoldi