Liber Comicus

For another use, see Liturgical books of the Roman Rite § Earliest Roman liturgical books.

Liber Comicus Toletanus Teplensis (also spelled Commicus), designated by t or 56 (in Besaurion system), is the oldest known lectionary from the Iberian Peninsula,[1] dated to somewhere between the 7th and 9th centuries.[2] The Latin text of the New Testament is not of the Vulgate but of the Vetus Latina.[1][3] "Taken in its context, liber comicus could not possibly mean a comic book ... this term is sometimes used to denote a lectionary."[4] It has some affinity with Codex Boernerianus.[5]

## See also

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* List of New Testament Latin manuscripts

## References

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1. ^ a b "72 fragments of the Old Latin text are preserved in the Spanish Lectionary or Liber Comicus."
Ann Freeman, 'Theodulf of Orleans and the Libri Carolini', Speculum 32 (1957): 663–705.
2. ^ Novum Testamentum Graece
3. ^ Metzger, Bruce M., The Early Versions of the New Testament, (Oxford University Press, 1977), 304.
4. ^ "This reviewer unblushingly admits that he did not know that this term is sometimes used to denote a lectionary."
Bernard M. Rosenthal, Review of Otto Meyer and Renate Klauser, Clavis Mediaevalis: Kleines Wörterbuch der Mittelalterforschung, in Speculum 39 (1964): 322–324.
5. ^ A. H. McNeile, An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament, revised by C. S. C. Williams, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1955, p. 399.

## External links

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* Edgecomb, Kevin P. Liber Comicus, the Hispano-Mozarabic Lectionary.
* Elliot, JK. 'Old Latin Manuscripts in Printed Editions of the Greek New Testament'. Novum Testamentum 26 (1984): 225–248.
* Epp, Eldon Jay. 'Some Important Textual Studies'. Journal of Biblical Literature 84 (1965): 172–175.

## Select bibliography

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* Baldwin, Spurgeon. 'On the meaning of the term "Liber Commicus."' Traditio 39 (1983): 439–443.
* Farr, C. 'Liturgical Influences On The Decoration Of The Book Of Kells'. In Catherine Karkov and Robert T Farrell (eds). Studies in Insular Art and Archaeology. Oxford, Ohio: American Early Medieval Studies and the Miami University School of Fine Arts, 1991. ISBN 1-879836-00-9
* Morin, Germanus (ed.). Anecdota Maredsolana. Volume 1. Liber Comicus. Maredsous Abbey, 1893.

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