Subject:
Re: Inter Grav. & Calends
Date:
Sat, 21 Dec 1996 11:32:36 -0800
From:
Simon Cassidy <simoncas@pacbell.net>
To:
East Carolina University Calendar discussion List <CALNDR-L>
Rodolphe Audette wrote:
>Art. 7: (translation): Therefore, in order that the vernal equinox,
which
>has been fixed by the Fathers of the council of Nicaea to the XII
day[before]
>the calends of April, be brought back to its proper place, we prescribe
and
>ordain that, [from] the month of October of the year MDLXXXII, ten
days
>starting on the third [before] the nones up to and including the eve
of the
>ides be skipped, and that the day which follows the fourth [before]
the nones
>(or St.Francis' day) be said the ides of October, on which day...
I would amend this translation only for the words I have put in square
brackets [], all of which I would change to the word "of". The word
[before]
seems more informative but is misleading since the XII day "of" the
calends of
April is actually eleven days before the 1st. of April (not twelve
or XII)!
For those confused by the Kalends, Nones and Ides terminology (and so
that
Ivan can implement this terminology authentically in his version of
Unix Cal
:)), I give the months of March and of October1582 in this terminology:
MARTIUS or MARCH.
OCTOBER 1582 A.D. (MDLXXXII)
(PERPETUAL GREGORIAN)
(JULIAN TO GREGORIAN CHANGE)
ROMAN
MODERN DOMINICAL ROMAN
MODERN DOMINICAL
TERMINOLOGY. TERM. LETTER.
TERMINOLOGY. TERM. LETTER.
I Kalends Mart. 1st. d
I Kalends Octob. 1st. (d Julian)
--------------------------
---------------------------------
VI Non. 2nd.
e
VI Non. 2nd.
(e Julian)
V Non. 3rd.
f
V Non. 3rd.
(f Julian)
IV Non. 4th.
g
IV Non. 4th.
(g Julian)
III Non. 5th.
A
------------------------- N.B. --
Prid.Non. 6th.
b
Ides
15th. A Greg.
Nones
7th. c
--------------------------
--------------------------
XVII Kal. 16th. b Greg.
VIII Idib. 8th.
d
XVI Kal. 17th. c
..
VII Idib. 9th.
e
XV Kal. 18th.
d ..
VI Idib. 10th.
f
XIV Kal. 19th. e
.
V Idib. 11th.
g
XIII Kal. 20th. f
IV Idib. 12th.
A
XII Kal. 21st. g
III Idib. 13th.
b
XI Kal. 22nd.
A
Prid.Idib. 14th. c
X Kal. 23rd.
b
Ides
15th. d
IX Kal. 24th.
c
--------------------------
VIII Kal. 25th. d
XVII Kal. 16th.
e
VII Kal. 26th. e
XVI Kal. 17th.
f
VI Kal. 27th.
f
XV Kal. 18th.
g
V Kal. 28th.
g
XIV Kal. 19th.
A
IV Kal. 29th.
A
XIII Kal. 20th.
b
III Kal. 30th. b
XII Kal. V.E. 21st. c N.B.
Prid.Kal. 31st. c
XI Kal. 22nd.
d
(I Kal. Novemb. 1st. d)
X Kal. 23rd.
e
--------------------------
IX Kal. 24th.
f
VIII Kal. 25th.
g
March, May, July, & October
VII Kal. 26th.
A
have Nones on the 7th. day.
VI Kal. 27th.
b
Other months have Nones on
V Kal. 28th.
c
the 5th. day of the month.
IV Kal. 29th.
d
All months have the Ides 8
III Kal. 30th.
e
days after the Nones (i.e.
Prid.Kal. 31st.
f
on the 15th. or the 13th.).
(I Kal. APRILIS 1st. g)
Prid.=Pridie & means "eve".
-----------------------------------------Simon Cassidy, Dec. 1996.
Rodolphe continued:
> Art. 9: (translation): Thereafter, in order that the equinox shall
not in
> the future recede from the XII [before the] calends of April, we
prescribe
> that a bissextus shall continue to be intercalated every fourth year
(as is
> customary), except for centennial years; which, although they have
always
> been leap years in the past, and although we still want the year
MDC to be
> one, shall not all be leap years afterwards, but that, out of four
hundred
> years, each of the first three centennial years shall be spent without
a
> bissextus, but that the fourth centennial year shall be a leap year,
in such
> manner that the years MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC shall not be leap years.
However
> in the year MM, a bissextus shall be intercalated, as is customary,
[still a
> February 29th}, and that same order of intervals and intercalations
of
> bissextus shall be maintained forever.
I would substitute for "[still a February 29th]" the phrase "February
containing a 29th. day", since 29 February was not called the "bissextus".
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