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> Listmembers:
>
> Although this submission pushes firmly against the general Subject
> Matter of our list( Medieval Religion), let alone the very boudaries
> of
> periodization, I submit it nonetheless.
>
> While recently browsing through the preface of the Book of Common
> Prayer, as included in the 1929 printing of the BCP according to the
> use of the Protestan Episcopal Church in the USA ( the preface being
> dated 1789, and stipulated as being in use from 1790), in the section
> immediately following__ "Concerning the Service of the Church"__;
> subsection
>
> " Tables for Finding Holy Days", there are explicit directions :
>
> "to find the Golden Number, or Prime,, add 1 to the year of Our
> Lord,
>
> and then divide by 19; the remainder, if any, is the Golden Number;
> but
>
> if nothing remain, then 19 is the Golden Number."
>
>
> Likewise: Under the heading "General Tables":
>
> "To find the Days to which the Golden Number <bold>ought</bold> to
> be
> prefixed in
>
> the Calendar in any given year of the Lord, consisting of entire
>
> Hundred Years, and in all the intermediate Years betwixt that and
> the
>
> next Hundredth Year following..."
>
>
> Could someone explain this "Golden Number" and eplicate the use and
> significance of this computation for the BCP; and, to open the
> question
> a bit further,and hence more specific to our list, the parallel (
> loosely noted) that I find in Alchemical and Kaballastic Computations
> of the late MA. and Renaissance.
>
> for the calendric location of such primes.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Josef Gulka
>
> Josef Gulka
>
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