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Inrhetoric, apericope (/pəˈrɪkəpiː/;Greekπερικοπή, "a cutting-out") is a set of verses that forms one coherent unit or thought, suitable for public reading from a text, now usually ofsacred scripture.
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).
Manuscripts—oftenilluminated—called pericopes, are normallyevangeliaries, that is, abbreviatedGospel Books only containing the sections of theGospels required for theMasses of theliturgical year. Notable examples, bothOttonian, are thePericopes of Henry II and theSalzburg Pericopes.
Lectionaries are normally made up of pericopes containing theEpistle andGospel readings for theliturgical 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 aconcatenation orcomposite reading.
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