Book of Common Prayer · The Litany (1662)

Versions of the Litany

The base text is the 1662 Litany (plain text, source). Earlier and later litanies are listed below, beginning with the Antiphonary of Bangor (c. 690). Medieval texts are in English: public-domain translations are credited, and the rest are translated by AnglicanGuide, with the original edition linked. Public-domain texts are given in full; copyrighted modern rites, and texts not available, have a short note and a link. Use the Compare tab on the Litany page to read any of them beside 1662.

Antiphonary of Bangor: the Common Prayer of the Brethren (Irish) (written at Bangor, Co. Down, c. 680–691) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren (ed.), The Antiphonary of Bangor, part II, HBS 10 (1895), pp. 22–24 (Internet Archive)
Royal 2 A.xx: Laetania (English) (written in Mercia in the 8th century (British Library Royal MS 2 A.xx)) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren (ed.), The Antiphonary of Bangor, part II, HBS 10 (1895), appendix, pp. 89–90 (Internet Archive)
Harley 7653: a litany of protection (English or Irish) (written c. 800 for a woman ("the handmaid of God"); in England by the 11th century) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren (ed.), The Antiphonary of Bangor, part II, HBS 10 (1895), appendix, pp. 83–85 (Internet Archive)
Stowe Missal: the Litany and the Deprecation of St Martin (Irish) (written in Ireland c. 792–812) · English translation · Latin · Source: G. F. Warner (ed.), The Stowe Missal, vol. II, HBS 32 (1915), pp. 5–7 (Internet Archive)
Irish Litanies I: Confession, the Saviour, Jesus and the Virgin (Plummer) (Old and Middle Irish; mostly in 15th-century manuscripts, composed earlier (Plummer)) · English translation · Irish (with Latin) · Source: C. Plummer (ed. and tr.), Irish Litanies, HBS 62 (1925) (HathiTrust)
Durham Collectar: the chapters at the Greater Litany (English) (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. 36–37 (Internet Archive)
Pontifical of Egbert: the litany at the consecration of a church (English) (written in England in the 10th century, ascribed to Egbert, Archbishop of York (732–766)) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. Greenwell (ed.), The Pontifical of Egbert, Archbishop of York, Surtees Society 27 (1853), pp. 27–30 (Internet Archive)
Irish Litanies II: Irish Saints and the Trinity (Plummer) (the saints' litanies are in 12th-century manuscripts; the Trinity litany is ascribed to Mugrón, coarb of Colum Cille (d. 980)) · English translation · Irish (with Latin) · Source: C. Plummer (ed. and tr.), Irish Litanies, HBS 62 (1925) (HathiTrust)
Other Anglo-Saxon litanies (1000)
Lapidge's edition of about fifty Anglo-Saxon litanies is under copyright and not reproduced. The Royal, Harley, Egbert, Durham and Leofric texts shown here are from public-domain editions. M. Lapidge (ed.), Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints, HBS 106 (1991).
Leofric Missal: a litany among the blessings (English) (the Leofric Missal, given to Exeter by Bishop Leofric (1050–1072)) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren (ed.), The Leofric Missal (1883), p. 205 (Internet Archive)
Irish Litanies III: metrical litanies (Plummer) (the St Michael litany is ascribed to Máel Ísu Ua Brolcháin (d. 1086); the Marian one to Colum Cille) · English translation · Irish (with Latin) · Source: C. Plummer (ed. and tr.), Irish Litanies, HBS 62 (1925) (HathiTrust)
The Prymer: the Litany (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. 47–51 (Internet Archive); lightly modernised by AnglicanGuide
York Breviary: the Litany (York Use, printed breviaries 1493–1533) · English translation · Latin · Source: S. W. Lawley (ed.), Breviarium ad usum insignis ecclesie Eboracensis, vol. I, Surtees Society 71 (1880), pp. 931–939 (Internet Archive)
Dunkeld: the Litany of the Culdees (Scottish) (present form c. 1484–1515, said to rest on an older Culdee text) · English translation · Latin · Source: A. W. Haddan and W. Stubbs (eds), Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents, vol. II part I (1873), appendix C, pp. 278–285 (Internet Archive)
Hereford Breviary: the Litany (Hereford Use, printed at Rouen 1505) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. H. Frere and L. E. G. Brown (eds), The Hereford Breviary, vol. I, HBS 26 (1904), pp. 24–29 (Internet Archive)
Aberdeen Breviary: the Litany for Monday (Scottish) (printed at Edinburgh by Chepman and Myllar, 1509–10) · English translation · Latin · Source: Breviarium Aberdonense, vol. I (facsimile reprint, 1854), psalter, Litania (Internet Archive)
Sarum Breviary: the Litany (in Lent) (Sarum Use, printed breviaries c. 1475–1557) · English translation · Latin · Source: J. D. Chambers (trans.), The Psalter, or Seven Ordinary Hours of Prayer according to the Use of Salisbury (1852), the Litany (Internet Archive)
Marshall's Primer: the Litany (second edition) (second edition of William Marshall's English Primer, 1535) · full text · Source: E. Burton (ed.), Three Primers put forth in the reign of Henry VIII (1834; 2nd ed. 1848) (Internet Archive), pp. 123–130; spelling modernised by Burton
Hilsey's Primer (The Manual of Prayers): the Litany (published 1539 by John Hilsey, Bishop of Rochester, by order of Thomas Cromwell) · full text · Source: E. Burton (ed.), Three Primers put forth in the reign of Henry VIII (1834; 2nd ed. 1848) (Internet Archive), pp. 380–387; spelling modernised by Burton
Cranmer's English Litany: An Exhortation unto Prayer and the Litany and Suffrages (published 27 May 1544 by Thomas Berthelet) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1544 Exhortation and Litany (justus.anglican.org)
The King's Primer: The Litany and Suffrages (published 29 May 1545; the primer Henry VIII ordered to be used alone) · full text · Source: E. Burton (ed.), Three Primers put forth in the reign of Henry VIII (Oxford, 1834), pp. 480–487 (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 in full: no transcription exists online; the 1604 prints survive only as black-letter scans. It is not identical to 1559: it adds a suffrage for the royal issue, a prayer for the Queen and Prince, and thanksgivings after the Litany. Book of Common Prayer 1604 (Early English Books, Internet Archive).
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: The Litany and the Prayers and Thanksgivings (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 Great Litany (1979) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer, The Great Litany (justus.anglican.org)
Church of England, Common Worship (2000)
Text under copyright and not reproduced. A modern-language Litany closely following 1662. Church of England, Common Worship: The Litany (official text).
Anglican Church in North America, Book of Common Prayer (2019)
Text under copyright and not reproduced. The Great Litany in traditional language, close to 1662 and 1928. ACNA, The Book of Common Prayer (2019) (official site).