HOLLIS 'Gelasian sacramentary' returns 33 records, and none of them is an English translation of the prayers: the editions are Latin (H. A. Wilson, 'The Gelasian sacramentary = Liber sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae', Henry Bradshaw Society, 1894; Mohlberg's Herder editions of 1959 'lat;ger' and 1981 'lat'), the surrounding literature is French (Plaine 1895), German (Ziegler 1976) or an English monograph that is explicitly 'a study in tradition' (Moreton 1976) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gelasian%20sacramentary&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The Internet Archive full text of Wilson's edition prints the Mass prayers in Latin ('Omnipotens sempiterne Deus' at the Christmas vigil formulary) and contains no English rendering of any prayer; a count of 'O God' in the whole volume returns zero, so Wilson's English is confined to the introduction (https://archive.org/details/LiberSacramentorumRomanaeEcclesiae). No record in HOLLIS pairs the sacramentary with an English translator, and no English rendering of the collection appeared among the retrieved records.
The earliest surviving Roman sacramentary and the principal witness to the Roman liturgy before Gregory the Great's reform: its prayers for the church year, for baptism, ordination, the consecration of virgins and the dedication of churches are the base layer of the Western eucharistic and sacramental vocabulary. Without an English translation the material is reachable only through Latin editions aimed at specialists, so the prayers that shaped Cranmer, the Roman canon and every Western rite stay invisible to students and to the site's non-specialist readers.
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1894 edition) |
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| The eighth-century Gelasian sacramentary : a study in tradition | Moreton, Bernard. "The eighth-century Gelasian sacramentary : a study in tradition." Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1976. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990007282650203941 |
| Sacramentarium Gelasianum : concordantia | "Sacramentarium Gelasianum : concordantia." Roma : LAS, [2014]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990145795290203941 |
| Das Sacramentarium Gelasianum Bibl. Vat. Reg. lat. 316 und die Schule von Chelles | Ziegler, Ulla. "Das Sacramentarium Gelasianum Bibl. Vat. Reg. lat. 316 und die Schule von Chelles." Frankfurt am Main : Buchhändler-Vereinigung GmbH, 1976. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990019372710203941 |
| Sacramentarium Gelasianum : e codice vaticano reginensi latino 316 vertente anno sacro MCMLXXV iussu Pauli PP. VI | "Sacramentarium Gelasianum : e codice vaticano reginensi latino 316 vertente anno sacro MCMLXXV iussu Pauli PP. VI." [Rome] : Civitate Vaticano, 1975. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990003140740203941 |
| Liber sacramentorum Romanae Aeclesiae ordinis anni circuli : (Cod. Vat. Reg. lat. 3l6/Paris Bibl. Nat. 7193, 4l/56) : (Sacramentarium Gelasianum) | "Liber sacramentorum Romanae Aeclesiae ordinis anni circuli : (Cod. Vat. Reg. lat. 3l6/Paris Bibl. Nat. 7193, 4l/56) : (Sacramentarium Gelasianum)." Roma : Herder, 1981. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990012266850203941 |