Otto Ege's 12th-Century Italian Lectionary (HL 3)

For anyone not familiar with such manuscripts, you just need to know that a Gospel Lectionary / Evangeliary / Evangelistary (the terminology varies) contains the readings from the gospels that are spoken by the deacon at mass. (The parts read by the priest are contained in a Sacramentary; the readings from the Epistles, read by the subdeacon, are contained in an Epistle Lectionary, or Epistolary; and the sung parts are contained in a Gradual).

There is considerable variety in the manuscripts, but they are typically arranged like other liturgical books, with:
  • Temporale: mainly of moveable feasts (dependent on when Advent and Easter occur in a given year), usually running from Advent to the week before Advent in the following year, up to 25 Sundays after the octave of Pentecost (or -- as seems likely in the present case -- from Christmas Eve to the end of Advent)
  • Sanctorale: mainly saints' feast days (with fixed dates), usually starting from the feast of St Catherine (25 Nov.) or St Andrew (30 Nov.), because these are major feasts that occur at about the same date as the beginning of Advent (or -- as seems likely in the present case -- from St Sylvester, 31 December, to St Thomas, 29 December)
  • Common of Saints: texts for classes of saint (in hierarchical order from apostles and martyrs to confessors and virgins) who are not important enough to have their own distinct ("proper") texts 
  • Dedication of a Church, and often other votive masses
Here are the leaves from the ex-Ege Gospel Lectionary of which I am aware; please let me know of others (blog@manuscripts.org.uk):

Temporale
  • [First quire missing (according to von Scherling, 1937)]
  • [fol. 1  beginning in the 2nd week after Epiphany (according to von Scherling, 1937)]
  • [fol. 2  Dominica III post Epiph.]
  • fol. 3r  [Fer IV] (Mk 3:4-5); Fer. VI (Mt 4:23-25); Sabb. (Mk 3:6-15); and
    fol. 3v  Dom. IV post Epiph. Mt 8:23 (Sotheby's, 15 June 2021, lot 2)
  • fol. _  [Sabb.] (Lk 9:52–56); Dom. in LX (Lk 8:4–15) (Dunedin, Reed MS 42; ex-Maggs, Bulletin 11 (1982) no. 20)
  • fol. 10r  [...] (Mt 8:8-13); Feria VI (Mt 5:43-6:4), in the week before XL, and
    fol. 10v  Rubric (only) for Sabb. (University of Minneapolis)
  • fol. 11r  Sabb. (Mk 6:47-56)
    fol. 11v Dom. I in XL (Mt. 4:1-7) (Houghton, MS Typ. 704.13)
  • fol. 12r Mt. 4:8-11; Feria II (Mt. 25:31-35-44)
  • fol. 12v [Added 26 Feb. 2024; offered on eBay; kindly brought to my attention by Mark Armstrong]
  • fol. 16r  Fer. VI, Sabb. Jn 5:10-15; Mt 17:1-9 and
    fol. 16v Dom. II in XL. (Mt 15:21-22) (Jim Sims Collection) [2]
  • [Dom. III]
  • fol. 19r?  [Sabb.] (Jn 8:?-11);
    fol. 19?v  Dom. IV in XL (Jn 6:1-9) (Pirages, Cat. 46, no. 1021 (ill. of verso)
  • [Passion Sunday]
  • fol. 36 [Feria II after Passion Sunday] (Jn 7:37-39); Feria III (Jn 7:1-13); Feria IV (Jn 10:22-26, but rubric indicates Mt) Private collection, coming for sale at Christie's, 2022 (recto included in Ege Microfilm Archive; detail of verso in Maggs, Eur. Bull., 13 (1986), no. 11).
  • [Palm Sunday]
  • [Holy Monday]
  • fol. 55r-v Holy Tuesday. (Mk 15:17-36) (Chapel Hill)
  • fol. [61r] [Holy Weds]. (Lk 23:8-17) (Jackson Collection, Boulder, CO)
  • [fol. 61v] [Lk 23:17-26]
  • fol. 62r-v Lk 23:26-44 [3]
  • fol. 63r  Lk 23:[44]-53, and
    fol. 63v  Maundy Thursday. Jn 13:1-8 (Cincinnati Public Library)
  • fol. 64  Good Friday. Jn 13:8-15, 18:1-10 (Cleveland Museum of Art) [1]
  • fol. 69  Holy Saturday (Greensboro, NC)
  • fol. 72  Feria III-IV after Easter Sunday (Amherst, MA)
  • fol. 73  Feria V (Ohio State)
  • [Easter Sunday]
  • fol. 85  Pentecost. Jn 14:19-21; 22-31; 3:16-17 (Beinecke)
  • fol. 86r  [Pentecost continued] (Jn 3:17-21) Feria III (Jn 10:1-10)
    fol. 86v  Feria IV. (Jn 6:44-46) (Stony Brook)
  • [Octave of Pentecost
  • Dom. I post oct. Pent.]
  • fol. 78?r  [...] (Jn 10:16); Feria IV (Lk 24:1-12)
    fol. 78?v Dom. II Post Oct. Pasc. (Jn 16:16-19) (Case Western) 
  • fol. 79?r  [..] (Jn 20:13-18); Feria VI (Mt 28:16-20)
    fol. 79?v  Sabb. (Jn 20:1-5) (Saskatchewan)
  • fol. 91r  [Sabb.] (Lk 14:24); Dom. III (Lk 15:1-10)
    fol. 91v Feria IV (Mt 5:25-28) (Houghton, MS Typ 953)
  • fol. __r/v [..] (Mk 11:23-24); Dom. IIII (Lk 6:36-42) (Maggs, Eur. Bull., 21 [1997], no. 76 (ill.), and Cat. 1262 (Christmas, 1998), no. 8 (ill.)).
  • [Dom. V -- Dom. XIV]
  • fol. 107/8 [Dom. XV] (Mt 6:28-33); Feria III (Mt 5:33-35) (Glencairn Museum)
  • fol. 109r  [Sabb.] (Lk 20:2-8); Dom. XVI (Lk 7:11-16)
    fol. 109v Feria IV (Mk 8:22-26) (UC Santa Barbara)
  • [Dom. XVII]
  • fol. 112?r [Dom. XVIII] (Mt 22:35-46)
  • fol. __v [verso not known] (RISD, Providence, RI)
  • fol. 114r  Dom XVIIII. Mk 12:32-43; Mt 9:1-8; and
    fol. 114v Feria IV. Mk 2:1-6 (Jim Sims Collection) [2]
  • [Dom. XX -- XXII]
  • fol. 119r   Feria III-IV. Mt 18:33-35; Mk 11:23-26; and 
    fol. 119v  Dom. XXIII, Feria IV. Mt 22:15-21, 17:24 (U. of Minnesota)
  • fol. 120  Dom. XXIV
  • fol. 121  Feria VI (Columbia, USC)
  • fol. 122  Dom. XXV (Cleveland Public Library)
  • fol. 123  Feria VI (Denison)
  • fol. __r  Dom. II ante Nat. Dni. [before Christmas] (Mt 11:2-10), and 
  • fol. __v  Feria IV (Mt 11:11-15); Feria VI (Mk 1:1-5) (Reading University, ex-Jupe Collection)
  • fol. 126r  [? Feria III after Dom. I ante Nat. Dni] (Jn 1:27-28); Feria IV (Lk 1:26-38), 
    fol. 126v  Feria VI (Lk 1:39-42) (Boulder, CO)
Sanctorale
  • fol. 129r-v: 26-28 Dec: End of St Stephen? (Mark 10:45); St John (Mark 21:19-24); The Innocents (Matthew 1:20-2:18 [3]
  • [fol. --- Jan. 17: St Sabinus -- recorded by Von Scherling, 19
  • fol. --- May 1: Sts Philip & James (Rochester, NY)
  • fol. 137r  June 29-July 7: Cues for Paul-Anontinus; Octave of Peter & Paul (Mt 14:22-33; and
    fol. 137v  July 10: The Seven Brothers (Mt 12:46-49) (Boston Public Library)
  • fol. 140r  ... (Lk 19:26-28)
    fol. 140v  Aug. 2-10: cues for Stephen to vigil; St Laurence (Jn 12:24-26) (Newark Public Library)
  • fol. 141r  Aug. 10-14: Laurence continued (Jn 12:26); cues for Tiburtius, Hypolitus & Cassianus; vigil (Lk 11:27-28); Assumption (Lk 10:38-40) (Kent State)
  • fol. 142  Aug. 23: St Archelaeus (reported by von Scherling, 1937)
  • fol. 143  Sept. 21: Matthew, preceded by vigil (Massey College)
  • fol. 144r  Sept, 29: St Michael (Mt 18:1-10), and
    fol. 144v Sept. 30 - Oct. 28: cues for Sts Jerome-Luke; Simon & Jude (Mt 10:1) (Kenyon College)
Common of Saints
  • fol. 148  The Nativity of one Apostle. Jn 15:7-11, 12-16, 17-22 (Ohio)
  • [leaf missing, or next leaf out of order: foliation continuous, but not text:]
  • fol. 149r  [...?] (Lk 10:5-7); (Mt 5:14-19); and
    fol. 149v More than one Martyr (Lk 6:17-21) (Houghton Library; ex-Christie's, 9 Dec. 2020, lot 9)
  • fol. 154  ? End of more than one Apostle. Mt 19:3-11; Lk 11:47-53 (Wadsworth Athenaeum) [1]
  • fol. 155  One Martyr. Lk 11:53-54; Mt 10:34-42, 10:26, 16:24-27 (Ontario College of Art & Design) [1]
  • fol. 157  Confessors (Lima Public Library)
  • fol. 159  [Text not specified in catalogue; no images] (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.1021.3)

Notes

[1] Images kindly sent to me by Lisa Fagin Davis, and added here 30 May 2021.

[2] Images kindly sent to me by Jim Sims, and added here 30 May 2021.

[3]  Images kindly sent to me by Scott Gwara, and added here 4 August 2023.


Yet to be identified/placed:

fol. __r/v   [Feria IV] (Mt 12:50); Feria V "Dicebat Ihesus ad eos qui crediderunt ei Iudeos" (Jn 8:31-39) (King Alfred's Notebook, 2015)

Edits:

18 July 2021: reformatting, with bullet-points

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