> >You'd have to look at the whole of your roll to decide whether this
> >is plausible. Otherwise, the "third Easter day" or "third Easter
> >sunday" would also make sense, i. e. Tuesday immediately following or
> >the second sunday after Easter.
To this, Otfried replied:
> But, and here it seems that I have to disagree or to confess my historical
> ignorance, did anybody ever see dating formulas where the Sundays/weeks
> after Easter were given by **inclusive** count? What I myself believe to
> know about the historical aspects of the problem is that only the **days**
> following a feast were (or could be) dated by inclusive count, including the
> feast day itself, whereas the **Sundays/weeks** following a feast were given
> by exclusive count, without including the feast itself. According to this
> rule the Sunday after Easter Sunday could be dated "octavis Paschae"
> (because it is the eighth day after Easter Sunday, this Easter Sunday
> included) or "prima post Pascha", but not "secunda Pascae" (nor "prima
> Paschae"). Accordingly, the second Sunday after Easter would have to be
> dated "secunda post Pascha", and not "tertia Paschae". Am I right, or am I
> giving too much weight to my limited experience with dating formulas?
As I could find no counter-example, I think Otfried is right here. In
my Grotefend, *Zeitrechnung*, s.v. Pascha, I found many references to
counting Easter *days* but not to "Easter sundays". See, by the way,
vol. 1, p. 150, for a distinction between 'feria tertia paschae'
(Tuesday immediately following Easter sunday) and 'feria tertia post
pascha' (Tuesday in the first "full week" after Easter). According to
Grotefend, though, there is considerable confusion over this, because
'pascha' can mean the whole week beginning Easter sunday as well as
the sunday only.
Still, I'm not convinced that we're dealing with a date at all,
especially since, as Otfried pointed out, we have a masculine
'tertio' here, not a feminine form. Note, for example, that there are
palaeographic similarities between 'tertio' and 'termino'!
Cheers, Christoph
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