medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I know that epacts have something to do with the excess of the days of the
solar year over the lunar year, but that is the limit of my knowledge. Perhaps
someone else can explain this better (perhaps Otfried?).
I learned about this ages ago, when I took diplomatics and we did chronology.
But then we found that plenty of charters actually copied the epact number off
other charters, without considering that the epact number for their own date
might be different. Apparently, medieval scribes were not so clear about what
an epact was, either ... :-)
Frans van Liere
Department of History, Calvin College
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Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402
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>>> Ms B M Cook <[log in to unmask]> 2/26/2007 5:22 AM >>>
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
There
> are six columns.
>
> 1) number of days in the month
> 2) golden numbers
> 3) ????
> 4) dominical letters
> 5) ????
> 6) "sign or symbol letters"
Could Column 3 be the EPACT ? It is in my copy of the Book of Common
Prayer. I expect someone else can explain EPACTS - I do have some notes
somewhere but I think they relate to a 15 year astronomical cycle of some
sort.
Brenda.
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