Of the four categories into which Greek New Testament manuscripts have conventionally been classified for registration, the lectionaries have received least attention in scholarly monographs, studies, collations or articles. Hence this section of the Bibliography is comparatively smaller than the others.

From the 1930s an attempt was made in the United States to study the lectionary manuscripts, particularly under E.C. Colwell's initiatives at the University of Chicago, and some pioneering studies were instituted. These led to some of the following published monographs and theses being written.

E.C. Colwell and D.W. Riddle, Prolegomena to the Study of the Lectionary Text of the Gospels (Chicago, 1933)

B.M. Metzger, The Saturday and Sunday Lessons from Luke in the Greek Gospel Lectionary (Chicago, 1944) (= Studies in the Lectionary Text of the Greek New Testament II, 3)

D.E. Ericsson, The Book of Acts in the Greek New Testament, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Chicago, 1961. (An analysis of 24 lectionaries of Acts)

J.R. Branton, The Common Text of the Gospel Lectionary in the Lenten Lections (Chicago, 1934) (= Studies in the Lectionary Text of the Greek New Testament II, 1)

D.C. Pellett, The Holy Week Lections in the Greek Gospel Lectionary, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Chicago, 1954

W.F. Specht, The Saturday and Sunday Lessons from Matthew in the Greek Lectionary, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Chicago, 1955

A.S. Illingworth, The Text of the Lucan Lections of the Menologion in the Greek Gospal Lectionary, unpublised PhD thesis, University of Chicago,1957.