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And, they never understood the sidereal year, either. yrs, tom ault
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:02:41 -0500
Frans van Liere <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 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
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>>>> Ms B M Cook <[log in to unmask]> 2/26/2007 5:22 AM >>>
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> 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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