[To these Lectionaries Tables of the Lessons were often added, of a similar character to those which we have in our Prayer-books.

The Table of daily Lessons went under the title of Synaxarion (or Eclogadion); and the Table of the Lessons of immovable Festivals and Saints' days was styled Menologion[148].] Liturgical use has proved a fruitful source of textual perturbation.
Nothing less was to have been expected,--as every one must admit who has examined ancient Evangelia with any degree of attention.

For a period before the custom arose of writing out the Ecclesiastical Lections in the 'Evangelistaries,' and 'Apostolos,' it may be regarded as certain that the practice generally prevailed of accommodating an ordinary copy, whether of the Gospels or of the Epistles, to the requirements of the Church.

This continued to the last to be a favourite method with the ancients[149].

Not only was it the invariable liturgical practice to introduce an ecclesiastical lection with an ever-varying formula,--by which means the holy Name is often found in MSS.