diff --git a/src/hours/types.ts b/src/hours/types.ts
index 1db05f2..d345d15 100644
--- a/src/hours/types.ts
+++ b/src/hours/types.ts
@@ -232,7 +232,13 @@ export type ResolvedPart =
   // groups a reading under its 'nocturn-psalmody' sibling for the UI (1-3,
   // omitted on a ferial 1-nocturn day); `source` is a human-readable
   // attribution ("St. John Chrysostom, Homily 3 on Matthew"; the user's
-  // own bible-reading plan doesn't carry one). `isGospel` flags a reading
+  // own bible-reading plan doesn't carry one). `label` is usually that same
+  // plain string (nocturn-readings' own `source`, already written once in
+  // English and reused as-is in both language columns), but octave
+  // readings' own `source` is a genuine bilingual attribution (their
+  // English title is a real translation of a Latin incipit, not an
+  // editorial description written once) so `label` accepts either shape —
+  // see hour-view.ts's renderLessonLabel. `isGospel` flags a reading
   // as a Gospel pericope (from either the user's own continuous-reading
   // plan or the day's own proper Gospel+homily — never a Common-of-Saints
   // fallback Gospel, which this app deliberately excludes for Matins, see
@@ -245,7 +251,7 @@ export type ResolvedPart =
   | {
       kind: 'lesson';
       text: ResolvedText;
-      label?: string;
+      label?: string | Partial<Record<string, string>>;
       nocturn?: number;
       source?: string;
       isGospel?: boolean;
diff --git a/src/propers/octave-readings.ts b/src/propers/octave-readings.ts
index 08d0a5f..c5f358c 100644
--- a/src/propers/octave-readings.ts
+++ b/src/propers/octave-readings.ts
@@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ export interface ScriptureCitation {
 export interface OctaveReadingText {
   id: string;
   /** Attribution for the reading — author and work, e.g. "St. John
-   * Damascene, 2nd Sermon on the Dormition of the Mother of God". Not
-   * itself translated/localized. */
-  source: string;
+   * Damascene, 2nd Sermon on the Dormition of the Mother of God". Bilingual
+   * like everything else here since it's rendered as the reading's own
+   * heading in both language columns (2026-08-21 fix: it used to be a bare
+   * Latin incipit shown verbatim in the English column too). */
+  source: Partial<Record<LanguageCode, string>>;
   text: Partial<Record<LanguageCode, string>>;
   /** The first responsory following the reading in the source, where one
    * was found — which one to use when several lessons (and several
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ export interface OctaveReadingText {
  */
 interface OctaveReadingRecord {
   id: string;
-  source: string;
+  source: Partial<Record<LanguageCode, string>>;
   text?: Partial<Record<LanguageCode, string>>;
   passages?: ScriptureCitation[];
   responsory?: Partial<Record<LanguageCode, string>>;
diff --git a/src/ui/hour-view.ts b/src/ui/hour-view.ts
index 656e99b..bcc0ae1 100644
--- a/src/ui/hour-view.ts
+++ b/src/ui/hour-view.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,27 @@ function renderCitation(text: ResolvedText): string {
   return values.length ? `<p class="ordo-part-citation">${escapeHtml(values.join(' / '))}</p>` : '';
 }
 
+// A lesson's `label` is either a plain string (an editorial attribution
+// written once and reused in both language columns) or a per-language
+// object (a genuine translation, e.g. an octave reading's Latin incipit
+// vs. its English title) — render the latter as its own lang-columns row
+// matching the body text underneath it.
+function renderLessonLabel(
+  label: string | Partial<Record<string, string>> | undefined,
+  languages: readonly string[],
+): string {
+  if (!label) {
+    return '<h3 class="ordo-part-label">Reading</h3>';
+  }
+  if (typeof label === 'string') {
+    return `<h3 class="ordo-part-label">${escapeHtml(label)}</h3>`;
+  }
+  const cols = languages
+    .map((lang) => `<span class="lang-column" lang="${lang}">${escapeHtml(label[lang] ?? '')}</span>`)
+    .join('');
+  return `<h3 class="ordo-part-label lang-columns lang-columns-${languages.length}">${cols}</h3>`;
+}
+
 function renderPart(part: ResolvedPart, languages: readonly string[]): string {
   switch (part.kind) {
     case 'hymn':
@@ -70,7 +91,7 @@ function renderPart(part: ResolvedPart, languages: readonly string[]): string {
     case 'lesson':
       return `
         <section class="ordo-part ordo-part-lesson${part.isGospel ? ' ordo-part-lesson-gospel' : ''}">
-          <h3 class="ordo-part-label">${part.isGospel ? 'Gospel' : part.label ? escapeHtml(part.label) : 'Reading'}</h3>
+          ${part.isGospel ? '<h3 class="ordo-part-label">Gospel</h3>' : renderLessonLabel(part.label, languages)}
           ${renderCitation(part.text)}
           ${renderColumns(part.text, languages)}
           ${part.responsory ? `<div class="ordo-part-responsory">${renderColumns(part.responsory, languages)}</div>` : ''}
diff --git a/tests/hours/prime.test.ts b/tests/hours/prime.test.ts
index 7430b83..f7e83b9 100644
--- a/tests/hours/prime.test.ts
+++ b/tests/hours/prime.test.ts
@@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ describe('resolveOrdo("prime", ...)', () => {
   it('resolves a Regula reading for the day, via the canonical-date table', () => {
     const ordo = resolveOrdo('prime', '2026-08-25');
     // 08-25 maps to canonical 04-25 (Rule ch. 67) in data/regula/table.yml.
-    const rule = ordo.parts.find((p) => p.kind === 'lesson' && p.label?.includes('67'));
+    const rule = ordo.parts.find(
+      (p) => p.kind === 'lesson' && typeof p.label === 'string' && p.label.includes('67'),
+    );
     expect(rule).toBeDefined();
   });
 
diff --git a/tests/propers/octave-readings.test.ts b/tests/propers/octave-readings.test.ts
index 85af280..c09356c 100644
--- a/tests/propers/octave-readings.test.ts
+++ b/tests/propers/octave-readings.test.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ import { getOctaveReading } from '../../src/propers';
 describe('getOctaveReading', () => {
   it('resolves a real reading for a day that has one, collapsed into one continuous text', () => {
     const reading = getOctaveReading('st-lawrence', 2);
-    expect(reading?.source).toBe('Sermo sancti Augustíni Epíscopi.');
+    expect(reading?.source.la).toBe('Sermo sancti Augustíni Epíscopi.');
+    expect(reading?.source.en).toBe('Sermon of St. Augustine, Bishop');
     expect(reading?.text.la).toContain('Beatissimi Laurentii Martyris');
     expect(reading?.text.en).toContain('most blessed Martyr, Lawrence');
     expect(reading?.status.la).toBe('verified');