Book of Common Prayer · Visitation of the Sick (1662)

Versions of Visitation of the Sick

The base text is the 1662 Order for the Visitation of the Sick and the Communion of the Sick (plain text, source). Earlier and later rites are listed below, beginning with the Irish orders in the Books of Dimma and Mulling, then the Anglo-Saxon, Sarum and York orders (in English, AnglicanGuide translations unless credited; editions 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 Visitation page to read any of them beside 1662.

• Book of Dimma: the Order for the Visitation of the Sick (Irish) (written in Ireland, late 8th century (Trinity College Dublin MS 59)) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren, The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church (1881), pp. 167–171 (Internet Archive)
• Book of Mulling: the Order for the Visitation of the Sick (Irish) (written in Ireland, late 8th century (Trinity College Dublin MS 60)) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren, The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church (1881), pp. 171–173 (Internet Archive)
• Stowe Missal: the Order for Visiting and Communicating the Sick (Irish) (written in Ireland c. 792–812) · English translation · Latin · Source: G. F. Warner (ed.), The Stowe Missal, vol. II, HBS 32 (1915), pp. 31–37 (Internet Archive)
• Book of Deer: the Communion of the Sick (Scottish) (written in Scotland, 9th–10th century (Cambridge University Library MS Ii.6.32)) · English translation · Latin · Source: J. Stuart (ed.), The Book of Deer, Spalding Club (1869), pp. 89–90 (Internet Archive)
• Durham Collectar: the chapters for the sick (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), p. 177 (Internet Archive)
• Pontifical of Egbert: the blessing over a sick man (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), preface and pp. 97, 131 (Internet Archive)
• Leofric Missal: the Order for Visiting and Anointing the Sick (English) (the Leofric Missal, given to Exeter by Bishop Leofric (1050–1072)) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren (ed.), The Leofric Missal (1883) (Internet Archive)
• Missal of Robert of Jumièges: the Visitation of the Sick (English) (written in England c. 1020; given to Jumièges by Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury (1051–1052)) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. G. Henderson (ed.), Manuale et Processionale ad usum Eboracensis, Surtees Society 63 (1875), appendix, pp. 180*–187* (Internet Archive)
• Magdalen College Pontifical: the Visitation of the Sick (English) (an English pontifical of the 12th century (Magdalen College, Oxford, MS 226)) · English translation · Latin · Source: H. A. Wilson (ed.), The Pontifical of Magdalen College, HBS 39 (1910), pp. 189–191 (Internet Archive)
• Pontifical of Anianus, Bishop of Bangor: Orders for Communicating and Anointing the Sick (Welsh) (Pontifical of Anianus, Bishop of Bangor 1268–1304) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. G. Henderson (ed.), Manuale et Processionale ad usum Eboracensis, Surtees Society 63 (1875), appendix, pp. 194*–196* (Internet Archive)
• Sarum Manual (St John's College MS): On the Day of Visiting the Sick (Middle English) (Middle English exhortations in a 15th-century Sarum manual, St John's College, Oxford) · English translation · Middle English · Source: W. G. Henderson (ed.), Manuale et Processionale ad usum Eboracensis, Surtees Society 63 (1875), appendix, pp. 110*–112* (Internet Archive)
• Sarum Manual: the Order for Visiting the Sick (the Use of Salisbury, as printed in the early 16th century) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. G. Henderson (ed.), Manuale et Processionale ad usum Eboracensis, Surtees Society 63 (1875), appendix, pp. 44*–52* (Internet Archive)
• Other Scottish books for the sick (1500)
  Beyond the Deer fragment, no Scottish order for the sick is in print. The one surviving Scottish manual, the Rathen Manual (ed. MacGregor, 1905), lacks it, and the Arbuthnott Missal and Aberdeen Breviary contain none. D. MacGregor (ed.), The Rathen Manual (1905) (Internet Archive).
• Hereford Use: the visitation of the sick (1502)
  No Hereford order for the sick survives in print. The Hereford Missal (1502) has only Masses for the sick, and the Hereford Breviary (1505; Frere and Brown, HBS 26, 40, 46) has no visitation office. No Hereford manual is known. W. G. Henderson (ed.), Missale ad usum Percelebris Ecclesiae Herefordensis (1874) (Internet Archive).
• York Manual: the Order for Visiting the Sick (the Use of York, as printed in 1509) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. G. Henderson (ed.), Manuale et Processionale ad usum Eboracensis, Surtees Society 63 (1875), pp. 41–54 (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 Visitation and Communion of the Sick unchanged. Charles Wohlers, the 1604 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: The Visitation and Communion of the Sick (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: Ministration to the Sick (1979) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer, Ministration to the Sick (justus.anglican.org)
• Church of England, Alternative Service Book and Common Worship (1980)
  Text under copyright and not reproduced. Modern services of prayer, laying on of hands and anointing, communion of the sick and ministry at the time of death. Church of England, Common Worship: Wholeness and Healing (official text).
• Anglican Church in North America, Book of Common Prayer (2019)
  Text under copyright and not reproduced. A Ministry to the Sick drawing on 1662 and 1979, with confession, laying on of hands, anointing and communion. ACNA, The Book of Common Prayer (2019) (official site).