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The Little Treatise on Ecclesiastical Observances

Micrologus de ecclesiasticis observationibus · Bernold of Constance (attributed) · late 11th century · treatise

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 'Bernold Constance' returns 17 records: editions of the Swabian chronicles in Latin and German ('Bertholds und Bernolds Chroniken', 2002; 'Die Chroniken Bertholds von Reichenau und Bernolds von Konstanz', 2003), their English translation 'Eleventh-century Germany: the Swabian chronicles' (2008) - which does not include the Micrologus - and a 1565 Plantin printing of 'Micrologvs de ecclesiasticis observationibvs' in Latin (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bernold%20Constance&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The narrower query 'Micrologus de ecclesiasticis observationibus' returns no record at all, and the English items in the result set are chronicle translations and German school studies. The 1565 Latin print is available as a verified Internet Archive scan (https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_AbDMZf_BMq4C). No English translation of the Micrologus was located.

A short, sharp treatise written in the middle of the Gregorian reform that describes what was actually done in church and what the author thought was wrong with it. It is a key witness to eleventh-century liturgical practice in the Empire, and it is untranslated, so the reform's liturgical programme is known in English mostly through canon-law and chronicle sources rather than through a liturgical manual.

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 (1565 Plantin edition)
bub_gb_AbDMZf_BMq4C

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: Bernold of Constance — 17 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
Bertholds und Bernolds Chroniken = [Bertholdi et Bernoldi chronica]
Berthold, Abbot of Zwiefalten, approximately 1089-approximately 1169 · 2002 · ger, lat
Berthold, Abbot of Zwiefalten, approximately 1089-approximately 1169. "Bertholds und Bernolds Chroniken = [Bertholdi et Bernoldi chronica]." Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, c2002. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990089306700203941
Die Chroniken Bertholds von Reichenau und Bernolds von Konstanz 1054-1100
Berthold, of Reichenau, approximately 1030-1088 · 2003 · lat, ger
Berthold, of Reichenau, approximately 1030-1088. "Die Chroniken Bertholds von Reichenau und Bernolds von Konstanz 1054-1100." Hannover : Hahnsche, 2003. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990092431580203941
Chronicon Hermanni Contracti : ex inedito hucusque codice augiensi, unacum eius vita et continuatione a Bertholdo eius discipulo scripta, præmittuntur varia anecdota, subiicitur Chronicon Petershusanum ineditum
Hermannus, Contractus, 1013-1054 · 1790-1792 · lat
Hermannus, Contractus, 1013-1054. "Chronicon Hermanni Contracti : ex inedito hucusque codice augiensi, unacum eius vita et continuatione a Bertholdo eius discipulo scripta, præmittuntur varia anecdota, subiicitur Chronicon Petershusanum ineditum." [Sankt Blasien, Germany] : Typis San-Blasianis, 1790-1792. https://holl…
Eleventh-century Germany : the Swabian chronicles
· 2008 · eng
"Eleventh-century Germany : the Swabian chronicles." Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2008. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990114909780203941
Micrologvs de ecclesiasticis observationibvs ..
Pamèle, Jacques de Joigny de, 1536-1587 · 1565 · lat
Pamèle, Jacques de Joigny de, 1536-1587. "Micrologvs de ecclesiasticis observationibvs ..." Antverpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1565. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990044090880203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Little Treatise on Ecclesiastical Observances” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-bernold-micrologus-de-ecclesiasticis-observationibus