Book of Common Prayer · Morning and Evening Prayer (1662)

Versions of Morning and Evening Prayer

The base text is the 1662 Orders for Morning and Evening Prayer, with the Athanasian Creed (plain text, source). Earlier and later rites are listed below, beginning with the Antiphonary of Bangor (translated by AnglicanGuide from the Latin), the English Prymer (lightly modernised by AnglicanGuide) and the Sarum hours (in J. D. Chambers’ 1852 translation); the original editions are 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 Morning and Evening Prayer page to read any of them beside 1662.

• Antiphonary of Bangor: the Te Deum, Gloria in excelsis and collects for the hours (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)
• Durham Collectar: collects for the hours (Northumbrian) (Durham Cathedral MS A.IV.19, 10th century, with Aldred's Old English gloss) · English translation · Latin · Source: J. Stevenson (ed.), Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis, Surtees Society 10 (1840) (Internet Archive)
• Regularis Concordia: the monastic day (agreed at the Synod of Winchester, c. 970–973) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. S. Logeman (ed.), "De consuetudine monachorum", Anglia 13 (1891), pp. 365ff. (Internet Archive)
• Old English Benedictine Office (compiled c. 1000, perhaps by Wulfstan of York) · English translation · Old English, with Latin · Source: E. Feiler (ed.), Das Benediktiner-Offizium: ein altenglisches Brevier aus dem 11. Jahrhundert (1901) (Internet Archive)
• The Prymer: Matins, Lauds, Evensong and Compline of Our Lady (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. 1–34 (Internet Archive); lightly modernised by AnglicanGuide
• York Breviary: the ordinary of the psalter (York Use, printed Venice 1493; ed. Lawley, Surtees Society 71 and 75 (1880–83)) · English translation · Latin · Source: S. W. Lawley (ed.), Breviarium ad usum insignis ecclesie Eboracensis, vol. 2, Surtees Society 75 (1883) (Internet Archive)
• Hereford Breviary: the ordinary of the psalter (Hereford Use, printed Rouen 1505; ed. Frere and Brown, HBS 26 (1904)) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. H. Frere and L. E. G. Brown (eds.), The Hereford Breviary, vol. 1, HBS 26 (1904) (Internet Archive)
• Aberdeen Breviary: the Sunday office of the psalter (Scottish) (printed at Edinburgh, 1509–10, for Bishop William Elphinstone) · English translation · Latin · Source: Breviarium Aberdonense, pars hyemalis (facsimile, 1854) (Internet Archive)
• Sarum Breviary: Sunday Matins, Lauds, Vespers and Compline (Sarum Use, printed breviaries c. 1475–1557 (Paris 1531 edition among those collated)) · English translation · Latin · Source: J. D. Chambers (trans.), The Psalter, or Seven Ordinary Hours of Prayer according to the Use of Salisbury (1852) (Internet Archive)
• Cranmer's two schemes for the breviary (1538)
  Two Latin drafts (c. 1538 and c. 1543–7) reducing the hours to morning and evening offices are the bridge between Sarum and 1549. No public-domain scan of Legg’s edition was found on the Internet Archive. J. Wickham Legg (ed.), Cranmer’s Liturgical Projects, HBS 50 (1915).
• First Prayer Book of Edward VI: Matins and Evensong (1549) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1549 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Second Prayer Book of Edward VI: Morning and Evening Prayer (1552) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1552 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Elizabethan Prayer Book: Morning and Evening Prayer (1559) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1559 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Jacobean Prayer Book (1604)
  The 1604 book left Morning and Evening Prayer as in 1559 (the only change in the offices being the addition of prayers for the royal family), so the 1559 text stands for it. Charles Wohlers, the 1559 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org).
• Scottish Prayer Book: Morning and Evening Prayer (1637) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Protestant Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer: Morning and Evening 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 Orders for Morning and Evening Prayer (1928) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1928 Proposed Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Protestant Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer: Morning and Evening 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: Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, Rite One (1979) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer, Daily Morning Prayer, Rite One (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer: Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, Rite Two (1979) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer, Daily Morning Prayer, Rite Two (justus.anglican.org)
• Church of England, Alternative Service Book and Common Worship (1980)
  The ASB (1980) and Common Worship (2000, Daily Prayer 2005) are under copyright and are linked rather than reproduced. Church of England, Common Worship: Daily Prayer (official text).
• Anglican Church in North America, Book of Common Prayer (2019)
  The 2019 book restores much of the 1662 shape for Daily Morning and Evening Prayer in contemporary language. It is under copyright and is linked rather than reproduced. ACNA, The Book of Common Prayer (2019) (official site).