Editing Pericope (section)

==Description==

The term can also be used as a way to identify certain themes in a chapter of sacred text. Its importance is mainly felt in, but not limited to, narrative portions of Sacred Scripture (as well as poetic sections).

[[Manuscript]]s—often [[Illuminated manuscript|illuminated]]—called pericopes, are normally [[evangeliaries]], that is, abbreviated [[Gospel Book]]s only containing the sections of the [[Gospel]]s required for the [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]]es of the [[liturgical year]]. Notable examples, both [[Ottonian art|Ottonian]], are the [[Pericopes of Henry II]] and the [[Salzburg Pericopes]].

[[Lectionary|Lectionaries]] are normally made up of pericopes containing the [[Epistle]] and [[Gospel]] readings for the [[liturgical year]]. A pericope consisting of passages from different parts of a single book, or from different books of the Bible, and linked together into a single reading is called a ''[[wikt:concatenation|concatenation]]'' or ''composite reading''.