title: Sélestat Lectionary
text: # Sélestat Lectionary
  
  The Sélestat Lectionary is a Merovingian illuminated manuscript dating to around 700. It contains part of the texts from a lectionary and is the oldest manuscript in Alsace. It is held in the Humanist Library of Sélestat.
  
  Written in semi-uncial, it contains 59 texts for Mass, of which 45 are drawn from the Old Testament books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel and 19 from the Acts of the Apostles. It concludes with an apocryphal chronicle of Jerome. It only contains ornamental initials and occasionally an ornamented title.
  
  