The Gregorian Sacramentary (Hadrianum)

Sacramentarium Gregorianum (Hadrianum) · Anonymous (papal court scriptorium; the book was sent by Pope Hadrian I to Charlemagne) · c. 785-791 · 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 'Gregorian sacramentary' returns 37 records: the Latin edition by H. A. Wilson, 'The Gregorian sacramentary under Charles the Great' (Henry Bradshaw Society, 1915) is catalogued 'lat;eng'; Mohlberg's 'Das Sacramentarium Gregorianum nach dem Aachener Urexemplar' is Latin with German (1958 'lat;ger', 1968 'ger'); a French study of Theodulf's Supplementum appeared in 2021 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gregorian%20sacramentary&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The full text of Wilson's volume on the Internet Archive contains 114 occurrences of 'Omnipotens' and none of 'Almighty', i.e. the prayers are Latin and the English is apparatus, not translation (https://archive.org/details/gregoriansacrame00cath). No English translation of the Hadrianum or of Benedict of Aniane's Supplementum was located in HOLLIS.

The book Charlemagne imposed on the Frankish church, and the textual ancestor of the Roman Missal; its calendar of Mass formularies, its Canon Missae and the Supplementum that filled its gaps define the Roman rite for a millennium. There is no English version, and because the edition of record is a Henry Bradshaw Society volume printed for a learned society, even the Latin is hard to obtain outside research libraries.

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 (1915 edition) gregoriansacrame00cath

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 Gregorian Sacramentary" — 8 record(s); match basis author_title.

Record	Citation
Gregorian sacramentary · 850-860 ·	"Gregorian sacramentary." 850-860. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork417513/catalog
The Gregorian sacramentary under Charles the Great · 1915 · lat, eng	"The Gregorian sacramentary under Charles the Great." London : Printed for the Society by Harrison and Sons, Ltd., 1915. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990028589700203941
The Gregorian sacramentary under Charles the Great · 1915 · lat, eng	"The Gregorian sacramentary under Charles the Great." London [Henry Bradshaw Society] 1915. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99160303348903941
Do this : liturgy as performance McCall, Richard D., 1947- · 2007 · eng	McCall, Richard D., 1947-. "Do this : liturgy as performance." Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990104666120203941
Ordo romanus primus Atchley, E. G. Cuthbert F. (Edward Godfrey Cuthbert Frederic) · 1905 · eng	Atchley, E. G. Cuthbert F. (Edward Godfrey Cuthbert Frederic). "Ordo romanus primus." London, A. Moring, 1905. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990041444780203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Gregorian Sacramentary (Hadrianum)” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-anon-sacramentarium-gregorianum-hadrianum