Liber Comicus

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Liber Comicus Toletanus Teplensis (also spelled Commicus), designated by t or 56 (in Besaurion system), is the oldest known lectionary from the Iberian Peninsula,"72 fragments of the Old Latin text are preserved in the Spanish Lectionary or Liber Comicus."

Ann Freeman, '[https://www.jstor.org/pss/2850291 Theodulf of Orleans and the Libri Carolini]', Speculum 32 (1957): 663–705. dated to somewhere between the 7th and 9th centuries.Novum Testamentum Graece

The Latin text of the New Testament is not of the Vulgate but of the Vetus Latina.

Metzger, Bruce M., The Early Versions of the New Testament, (Oxford University Press, 1977), 304.

"Taken in its context, liber comicus could not possibly mean a comic book ... this term is sometimes used to denote a lectionary."

"This reviewer unblushingly admits that he did not know that this term is sometimes used to denote a lectionary."

Bernard M. Rosenthal, [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2852742 Review] of Otto Meyer and Renate Klauser, Clavis Mediaevalis: Kleines Wörterbuch der Mittelalterforschung, in Speculum 39 (1964): 322–324. It has some affinity with Codex Boernerianus.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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  • 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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