Evangelist

The Whitsun miracle in Codex Egberti

Evangelistar (from Latin evangelistarium ) refers to a liturgical book in the Catholic and Orthodox churches that contains the text sections ( pericopes ) from the Gospels of the New Testament for reading on Sundays and public holidays of the church year.

In the Byzantine liturgy the book is called Εὐαγγέλιον (or Εὐαγγέλιον λειτουργικόν), in today's Roman Catholic liturgy it is called Latin Evangeliarium , German Evangeliarium .

The liturgical book differs from a Τετραευαγγέλιον and a Gospel manuscript , which contain the full text of the four Gospels (partly supplemented by lists of the pericopes read out in the liturgy, called (small) synaxaries and (small) menologies ).

history

The originally continuous reading of the Bible text ( lectio continua ) as part of worship services has increasingly been replaced by the reading of selected text passages (pericopes) since the 5th century .

In order to find the pericopes in the evangelists, indexes of places in the order of the church year, so-called capitulars ( capitula evangeliorum ), were added to the biblical texts. Since the late 6th or early 7th century, such directories were created as independent books and the biblical text sections to be read were written out in full, which then took the place of the Gospels as a template for the reading.

A complete lessonary contained the Evangelistary with the collection of the Gospel pericopes and the Epistolar with the collection of the pericopes from the other biblical writings (with the exception of the psalm sections ). Both parts were mostly made as independent books, among which the evangelists are often distinguished by their particularly splendid furnishings.

Well-known examples are the Godescalc Evangelistar (781–783), the Codex Egberti ( Reichenau , 980–993) or the Codex Assemanianus (Novgorod, 11th century).

Evangelists

Illustration	designation	Time of origin	Place of origin	Remarks	signature
	Godescalc Evangelist	between 781 and 783	Aachen (?)	written in gold and silver ink on purple-stained parchment	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale , Ms. nouv. acq. lat. 1203
	Fragment of an evangelist	second third of the 9th century	Reims		Düsseldorf, University and State Library , B. 113
	Reichenau evangelist	around 970	Reichenau painting school		Leipzig, City Library, Ms. CXC
	Evangelistary of Poussay	around 970-990	Reichenau		Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France , Ms. lat. 10514
	Gero Codex	shortly before 976	Reichenau		Darmstadt, Hessian University and State Library , Hs 1948
	Codex Egberti	980-993	Trier or Reichenau	Client Archbishop Egbert von Trier	Trier, City Library , Cod. 24
	Seeon Evangelist	1002/1014	Seeon Monastery		Bamberg, State Library, Msc. Bibl. 95
	Uta Codex	Early 11th century	regensburg	Client Abbess Uta	Munich, Bavarian State Library, Clm 13601
	Codex Assemanianus	early 11th century	Macedonia, school of Ohrid	in Church Slavonic in Glagolitic script	Rome, Vatican Apostolic Library, Cod. Slav. 3
	Evangelist of Henry II	around 1007/1012	Reichenau	Client Emperor Heinrich II for Bamberg Cathedral, presumably on the occasion of its inauguration	Munich, Bavarian State Library, Clm 4452
	Evangelist of Henry III.	between 1039 and 1043	Echternach Abbey	Client King Heinrich III.	State and University Library Bremen, Ms. b 21
	Codex Aureus Pultoviensis	second half of the 11th century	Prague miniature school	in Płock Cathedral , possibly donated by Queen Judith of Poland	Krakow , Czartoryski Museum , Ms. 1207
	Codex aureus Gnesnensis	second half of the 11th century	Prague miniature school		Gniezno , Archbishop's Archives
	Codex Vyssegradensis	shortly before 1085	Prague miniature school	for the first Bohemian royal coronation by Vratislav II.	Prague , National and University Library, Cod. XIV, A 13
	Archangelsk Evangelist	1092	near Novgorod?	in Church Slavonic	Moscow, Russian National Library
	Evangelistary of Wraza	13th Century	Novgorod or surroundings?		Sofia, National Library of Saints Cyril and Methodius
	Evangelistary of Lauryshava	around 1329	Lauryshava Monastery, Grand Duchy of Lithuania	in Church Slavonic	Kraków , Czartoryski Museum

See also : Milyatino Evangelistar , Evangelistar von Turow and Simon Evangelistar

Web links

Wiktionary: Evangelistar  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Publications on Evangelists in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• Publications on Pericope Book in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• Publications about evangelists in the catalog of the German National Library
• Passau Evangelistar - BSB Clm 16002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacques Noret: Ménologes, synaxaires, ménées. Essai de clarification d'une terminology . In: Analecta Bollandiana 86 (1968) 21-24, esp. 23f.
2. ↑ See: The Bishops' Conferences of the German-Speaking Area (Ed.). Gospels. The Gospels of Sundays and feast days in the read age A, B and C. A output . Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1985, OCLC 74701217 .