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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Daniel, I'm not sure this is quite what you have in mind, but there's a wonderful resource I heartily commend for your venture, viz., The Oxford Companion to the Year (Oxford 2003), by Bonnie Blackburn and Leofranc Holdford-Strevens. In it, you'll find a wealth of information about computing the date of Easter. In particular, Appendix H contains a table listing the very criteria you mention. I hope this is of some help to you. --Christopher >-----Original Message----- >From: Daniel K. Gullo [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 09:10 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [M-R] Easter Calculation Table > >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > >Hello everyone, > >I have been asked by a friend to help describe a short >manuscript that contains several interesting diagrams on >calculating easter. I am completely unfamiliar with this form >of computation. I have tried looking up several books on >this, but I have had a hard time finding a basic text that >explains the parts of each table except for a book of hours. > >The current manuscript, in a private collection, has both >table and circular computations. My hope is that if I can >figure out the tables, then I might be able to figure out the >circular diagrams. Although be warned I might have to post >those too. The good news is, if I can figure all of them out >I am going to ask if I can put them all online as a teaching aid. > >I have uploaded one of the images from the primary tables (see >below). These are for the months January and February. There >are six columns. > >1) number of days in the month >2) golden numbers >3) ???? >4) dominical letters >5) ???? >6) "sign or symbol letters" > >I know how the 1st, 2nd, and 4th columns work. However, the >3rd, 5th, and 6th column are completely incomprehensible. > >Column six seems to provide letters for the days of the month >in column one. I am not sure. If so, what is the rationale? > >Column five is incredibly puzzling as it seems to be spelling >out a sentence, with a couple of letters in each square of the > table. > >I have no idea what three is, but it seems to be the hours of >the day. But did they the compute the hours of the day in 24 >hours, or in 12? > >Here is the file (sorry for the sidways view). For those with >dialup (like me) be warned as it is very large. > >http://home.uchicago.edu/~dkgullo/EasterCalcTable.jpg > >Thank you for all your help > >Daniel >---------------------------- >Daniel K. Gullo >Ph.D. Candidate >Department of History >1317 E. Madison Park >Apt. 1 >Chicago, IL 60615 >http://home.uchicago.edu/~dkgullo >773-536-3401 (home) >773-592-6172 (cell) > >********************************************************************** >To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME >to: [log in to unmask] >To send a message to the list, address it to: >[log in to unmask] >To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion >to: [log in to unmask] >In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: >[log in to unmask] >For further information, visit our web site: >http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html