The Benedictional of Archbishop Robert

Benedictionale Roberti archiepiscopi · Anonymous (Winchester or Canterbury, associated with Archbishop Robert of Rouen) · c. 980 (the HOLLIS manuscript record gives 'ca.980') · 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 of Archbishop Robert' returns twelve records, of which the textual one is H. A. Wilson's Henry Bradshaw Society edition, 'The benedictional of Archbishop Robert' (London, 1903), catalogued 'lat;eng', i.e. the Latin text of the blessings with English introduction and notes (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Benedictional%20of%20Archbishop%20Robert&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The scan of that volume is available on the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/benedictionalofa0024cath). No English translation of the blessings appears in any of the twelve records, and the neighbouring results are the AEthelwold facsimiles and unrelated liturgical history.

An episcopal benedictional of the late tenth century that transmits the Gregorian blessing tradition in a Winchester recension, and one of the few such books whose text is fully edited. Its blessings are the ordinary episcopal voice of the Anglo-Saxon church, and their untranslated state means that the pastoral rhetoric of the tenth-century reform is unavailable except in Latin.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1903 edition) benedictionalofa0024cath

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 Archbishop Robert" — 6 record(s); match basis author_title.

Record	Citation
The benedictional of Archbishop Robert · 1903 · lat, eng	"The benedictional of Archbishop Robert." London : Printed for the Society by Harrison and Sons, 1903. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990061537620203941
The Benedictional of Archbishop Robert · 1903 · eng	"The Benedictional of Archbishop Robert." London, [Harrison and sons] 1903. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990028479140203941
The benedictional of Archbishop Robert · 1903 · lat, eng	"The benedictional of Archbishop Robert." London [Henry Bradshaw Society] 1903. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99160256379803941
The Benedictional of Æthelwold Deshman, Robert · 1995 · eng	Deshman, Robert. "The Benedictional of Æthelwold." Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990061491540203941
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

Sources checked

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