Liber Comicus

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]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "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.

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