Sélestat Lectionary
Illustration — Folios 66v-67r. The Sélestat Lectionary is a Merovingian illuminated manuscript dating to around 700. It contains part of the texts from a lectionary and is the oldest manuscript in Alsace in France.
Sélestat Lectionary
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- Date
- 800
- Language
- Latin
- Material
- parchment
- Held by
- Humanist Library of Sélestat
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Illustration — Folios 66v-67r. The Sélestat Lectionary is a Merovingian illuminated manuscript dating to around 700. It contains part of the texts from a lectionary and is the oldest manuscript in Alsace in France.
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It is held in the Humanist Library of Sélestat. Written in semi-uncial, it contains 59 texts for Mass, of which 45 are drawn from the Old Testament books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel and 19 from the Acts of the Apostles. It concludes with an apocryphal chronicle of Jerome. It only contains ornamental initials and occasionally an ornamented title.
Materials recorded for it are parchment. The record gives 800 as its date of establishment or first appearance.
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Sélestat Lectionary created.
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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