Book of Common Prayer · Burial of the Dead (1662)

Versions of Burial of the Dead

The base text is the 1662 Order for the Burial of the Dead (plain text, source). Earlier and later rites are listed below, beginning with the Sarum burial (translated into English by AnglicanGuide from the Latin; the edition is linked). Public-domain texts are given in full; copyrighted modern rites, and texts not separately transcribed, have a short note and a link. Use the Compare tab on the Burial page to read any of them beside 1662.

• Antiphonary of Bangor: the intercession for the departed (Irish) (written at Bangor, Co. Down, c. 680–691) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren (ed.), The Antiphonary of Bangor, part 2, HBS 10 (1895) (Internet Archive)
• Stowe Missal: the Dead in the Canon and the Mass for Several Dead (Irish) (written in Ireland c. 792–812) · English translation · Latin · Source: G. F. Warner (ed.), The Stowe Missal, vol. 2, HBS 32 (1915), pp. 13–16 and 23 (Internet Archive)
• Leofric Missal: Ordo in agenda mortuorum (Order for the Dead) (Leofric A, written c. 900 in Lotharingia; in England by the 10th century, at Exeter under Bishop Leofric (1050–72)) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren (ed.), The Leofric Missal (Oxford, 1883), pp. 197–203 (Internet Archive)
• Durham Collectar: prayers for the dead (written in the 10th century; glossed in Old English at Chester-le-Street c. 970) · English translation · Latin · Source: J. Stevenson (ed.), Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis, Surtees Society 10 (1840), pp. 155–158 (Internet Archive)
• Benedictional of Archbishop Robert: blessings for the dead (written at Winchester in the late 10th century) · English translation · Latin · Source: H. A. Wilson (ed.), The Benedictional of Archbishop Robert, HBS 24 (1903), pp. 56–57 and 152 (Internet Archive)
• Other Anglo-Saxon and Irish books for the dead (1000)
  The Robert of Jumièges, Durham and Benedictional texts are now given in full. Still not shown: the Egbert Pontifical, which has only the consecration of a cemetery (prayers at its four corners for those to rest there), not a burial order; the Book of Deer, which has none, and the Portiforium of St Wulstan (HBS 89–90), which is under copyright. F. E. Warren (ed.), The Leofric Missal (1883) (Internet Archive).
• Ælfric, Letter to the Monks of Eynsham: the death of a brother (written c. 1005, abridging the Regularis Concordia (c. 973)) · English translation · Latin · Source: M. Bateson (ed.), "Ælfric's Abridgement of St Æthelwold's Concordia", in G. W. Kitchin (ed.), Compotus Rolls of the Obedientiaries of St Swithun's Priory (1892), pp. 192–194 (Internet Archive)
• Missal of Robert of Jumièges: Agenda mortuorum (Order for the Dead) (written in England, probably at Peterborough or Ely, c. 1015–25) · English translation · Latin · Source: H. A. Wilson (ed.), The Missal of Robert of Jumièges, HBS 11 (1896), pp. 297–303 (Internet Archive)
• The Prymer: Office of the Dead and Commendations (Middle English) (English Primer, Cambridge MS Dd.11.82, c. 1420–30) · English translation · Middle English · Source: H. Littlehales (ed.), The Prymer or Lay Folks' Prayer Book, EETS 105 (1895), pp. 52–89 (Internet Archive); lightly modernised by AnglicanGuide
• Sarum Missal: the Mass for the Dead (Requiem) (printed editions c. 1487–1557; English translation 1911) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren (trans.), The Sarum Missal in English, part 2 (1911), pp. 174–184 (Internet Archive)
• Sarum Manual: Inhumatio defuncti (the Burial) (printed editions c. 1500–1554) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. G. Henderson (ed.), Manuale et Processionale ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis, Surtees Society 63 (1875), appendix: Manuale ad usum Sarum, pp. 80*–85* (Internet Archive)
• Hereford Breviary: Office for the Dead (printed edition 1505) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. G. Henderson (ed.), York Manual, Surtees Society 63 (1875), appendix, pp. 122*–125* (Internet Archive)
• York Manual: Commendations and Burial of the Dead (printed editions 1509–1530) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. G. Henderson (ed.), Manuale et Processionale ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis, Surtees Society 63 (1875), pp. 92–102 (Internet Archive)
• York Manual and Hereford Missal: burial (1509)
  York and Hereford are now given in full. Their Office of the Dead and commendation psalms match the Sarum use shown in the Prymer version. Welsh books (the Bangor Pontifical of Anianus, 1268, and the St Asaph manual) have no burial order in Henderson. W. G. Henderson (ed.), York Manual, Surtees Society 63 (1875), pp. 55–102 and 122* (Internet Archive).
• Aberdeen Breviary: the Office of the Dead (printed at Edinburgh, 1509–10, for Bishop William Elphinstone) · English translation · Latin · Source: Breviarium Aberdonense (facsimile reprint, London, 1854), vol. 2, Pars hyemalis, ff. lxxxiii–lxxxvi (Internet Archive)
• First Prayer Book of Edward VI (1549) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1549 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Second Prayer Book of Edward VI (1552) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1552 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Elizabethan Prayer Book (1559) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1559 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Jacobean Prayer Book (1604)
  Not given separately: the 1604 book kept the 1559 burial order unchanged. Charles Wohlers, the 1559 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org).
• Scottish Prayer Book ("Laud's Liturgy") (1637) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer (1789) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1789 U.S. Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Church of England Proposed Prayer Book: Alternative Order for the Burial of the Dead (1928) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1928 Proposed Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer (1928) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1928 U.S. Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer: The Burial of the Dead, Rite One (1979) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer, Burial Rite One (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer: The Burial of the Dead, Rite Two (1979) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer, Burial Rite Two (justus.anglican.org)
• Church of England, Alternative Service Book and Common Worship (1980)
  Text under copyright and not reproduced. Modern-language funeral services with a commendation and committal, and optional prayers for the departed. Church of England, Common Worship: Funeral (official text).
• Anglican Church in North America, Book of Common Prayer (2019)
  Text under copyright and not reproduced. A burial office drawing on 1662 and 1979, with a commendation and the committal "in sure and certain hope". ACNA, The Book of Common Prayer (2019) (official site).