Lectionary for matins
Contributors: Peerlkamp, Petrus Hofman, 1786-1865, former owner; Kloster Oberwesel; Merton, Wilfred, former owner
Series: Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Published: 1200
Language: lat
Number of pages: 118
Other titles: Oberwesel lectionary; Lectionarium de sanctis
Work titles: Lectionarium officii
Notes: Written in a carolingian minuscule hand with some gothic features, in one column in black ink. Rubrics are in red. Each feast begins with a large initial in red with decoration in other colors. Each reading begins with a 2- or more line initial in red.

Bound in 19th-century red morocco, perhaps by Roger de Coverly, gilt.

In a tray case, 33 cm.

The notes on f. 118v relate to the Benedictine Allerheiligenkloster at Oberwesel in the diocese of Trier, but it is not clear if the ms. was written there (see Light).

For the identification of the lections, see curatorial file.

L. Light, Bible in the twelfth century (1991), no. 11.

Bond and Faye, 278-9.

MS Typ 444. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Also available in an electronic version.
Table of contents: title: Lections for the feasts of: 1. Invention of the cross (ff. 1r-11r); title: 2. Ascension (11r-16r); title: 3. Pentecost (16r-26r); title: 4. Trinity Sunday (26r-28v); title: 5. Monday (28v-30r); title: 6. Tuesday (30r-31v); title: 7. Wednesday (31v-34r); title: 8. Thursday (34r-37r); title: 9. Friday (37r-39v); title: 10. Saturday (39v-42v); title: 11. "Separation of the Apostles" (15 July) (42v-45v); title: 12. Mary Magdalene (45v-48v); title: 13. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and its octave (49r-87v); title: 14. Nativity of Mary and its octave (87v-98v); title: 15. Exaltation of the cross (98v-104r); title: 16. St. Matthew (104r-107r); title: 17. St. Luke (107r-110r); title: 18. St. Martin (110r-113r); title: 19. St. Nicholas (113r-118r); title: added notes (118v).