Contents of ThALES
The construction of this database was launched in January 2006. Today it includes roughly 50 lectionaries with roughly 3000 events and 12000 individual readings.
List of (Some) Lectionaries Included So Far
| Name | Language | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Old Armenian Lectionary, ms Jerusalem 121 and Erevan 985 and Paris BN 44 | Armenian | Oldest witness for Jerusalem liturgy |
| Egeria | Latin | some references in a travel log of a pilgrim to the Holy Land in the late IVth century |
| Constantinople Typicon (ms St. Cross 40) | Greek | Tenth century |
| Classical Greek Lectionary of the Prophets | Greek | Reconstruction according to Rahlfs based on three early manuscripts |
| Vat. Syr. 24 | Syriac | Witness of the rite of the Upper Monastery, Eastern Syriac |
| Bobbio Missale | Latin | Old Gallican rite |
| Luxueil | Latin | Old Gallican rite |
| Mozarabic, Paris BN lat 2269 palimpsest | Latin | Old Mozarabic rite from around 800 |
| Roman Lectionary, Comes Wuerzburg | Latin | Witness for the Roman rite, end of 7th century |
| Murbach | Latin | Roman rite |
| Alcuin | Latin | Roman rite |
| Salamanca 2647 | Arabic | Maronite Rite |
| British Museum add 14705 | Syriac | |
| British Library 243 (Add. 14492) | Syriac | |
| Paris Bibliothèque Nationale 27 Anc fonds 5 | Syriac | |
| British Library LII Add 17103 | Syriac | |
| British Library add 14485a | Syriac | |
| British Library Add 14686 | Syriac | interesting lectionary with some readings from 2Bar and 4Ezra |
| British Library add 14485b | Syriac | |
| British Library XLVIIII Add 14442 | Syriac | |
| British Library L Add 14437 | Syriac | |
| British Library CCXXIV add 12139 | Syriac | |
| British Library add 14487 | Syriac | |
| British Library XLIV Add 12134 | Syriac | |
| Burkitt Lectionary BL 14528 | Syriac | A Syriac Lectionary that might attest to readings used in Edessa of the fifth century |
| British Library add 14486 | Syriac | |
| British Library 243 (add. 14492) | Syriac | Witness for the Lectionay of the Upper Monastery from 862 AD |
| Mishna | Hebrew | Attestations for fixed readings in the Mishna (3rd century) |
| Tosefta | Hebrew | Attestations for fixed readings in the Tosefta, belonging to the rabbinic corpus, perhaps around 300 |
| Jerusalem Talmud | Hebrew / Aramaic | |
| Pesiqta Rabbati | Hebrew | Homiletic Midrash with lecture indications |
| Pesiqta de Rav Kahana | Hebrew | Homiletic Midrash with lecture indications |
| Babylonian Talmud | Hebrew / Aramaic | |
| Jewish triennial | (reconstruction acc to Mann & Wacholder and according to Yossi Ofer) | |
| Siddur Rav Saadia Gaon | Arabic | tenth century Iraq |
| Jewish Yemenite | Hebrew | |
| Jewish Sephardi | Hebrew | |
| Jewish Byzantine (Romaniot) | Hebrew | |
| Jewish Ashkenazi | Hebrew | |
| Jewish Italian | Hebrew |
Lectionaries Currently Undergoing Digitalization
The Jerusalem Lectionary as witnessed in ms P (Paris, Cod. Georg. 3) of the Old Georgian Lectionary.
Albanian Palimpsest Lectionary
