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Illumination and text of the opening page of the Greek Gospel Lectionary 303, dating from the eleventh or 
twelfth century, now in the Library of Princeton Theological Seminary. The ornament, typically 
Constantinopolitan, is delicately colored with red, blue, green, yellow, and gold which have lost but little 
of their original brilliance. The gold title reads: ‘‘The Gospel of the Holy and Great Sunday of Easter, 
from the [Gospel] according to John.’”’ Then follows the pericope regularly read on this day, John 1:1-17. 
(A collation, prepared by the present writer, of the text of the Gospel lections for each day of the ecclesi- 
astical year, called the synaxarion, is available on microfilm in the libraries of Princeton Theological 
Seminary and the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.) 
