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The Book of the Comes (Hispanic Mass lectionary)

Liber Commicus · Anonymous (the Hispanic rite lectionary) · medieval; the date of the surviving manuscripts was not verified · liturgy

Latin · domain: latin-liturgy · researched 2026-11-14

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS 'Liber Commicus' returns two records only: the Spanish critical edition by Justo Perez de Urbel and Atilano Gonzalez y Ruiz-Zorrilla ('Liber commicus', Madrid, 1950-, 'spa') and the Latin edition by Germain Morin, 'Liber Comicus, sive lectionarius missae quo Toletana Ecclesia ante annos mille et ducentos utebatur' (Maredsous, 1893, 'lat') (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Liber%20Commicus&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Morin's edition is available as a verified Internet Archive scan (https://archive.org/details/libercomicussive00moriuoft). Neither is a translation, and no English version of the Hispanic lectionary was located.

The Hispanic lectionary, and the only Latin rite with a surviving pre-Carolingian ordered set of readings that differs substantially from the Roman comes; its ordered readings differ substantially from the Roman comes, which makes it a control on how the Latin West actually read scripture in church. Untranslated, it is invisible in English discussion of the history of the lectionary, which is written as if the Roman book were the only Latin one.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1893 edition)
libercomicussive00moriuoft

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: The Book of the Comes — 54859 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
The picture book comes of age : looking at childhood through the art of illustration
Schwarcz, Joseph H · 1991 · eng
Schwarcz, Joseph H. "The picture book comes of age : looking at childhood through the art of illustration." Chicago : American Library Association, c1991. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99160344481003941
The dream that comes true; a book of the life beyond the horizion
Milne, J. Napier · 1919 · eng
Milne, J. Napier. "The dream that comes true; a book of the life beyond the horizion." London, the Epworth press, [1919]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990060936770203941
A book comes together : from idea to library
Bial, Raymond · 2009 · eng
Bial, Raymond. "A book comes together : from idea to library." Jacksonville, Ill. : Bound to Stay Bound Books, 2009. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159110450403941
This valuable book comes to you free!
· date of publication not identified · eng
"This valuable book comes to you free!." [Place of publication not identified] : Madison Brothers, Inc, [date of publication not identified]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99162696261003941
Until the spirit comes : the spirit of God in the book of Isaiah
Ma, Wonsuk · 1999 · eng
Ma, Wonsuk. "Until the spirit comes : the spirit of God in the book of Isaiah." Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, c1999. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990081164510203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Book of the Comes (Hispanic Mass lectionary)” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-anon-liber-commicus