Chronology
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Calendar (CALENDARIO)
CALENDAR. - This name originally denoted among the Romans the register in which bankers noted the interest on loans falling due on the… -
Chronogram (CRONOGRAMMA)
CHRONOGRAM. — From the Greek χρόνος and γράμμα, an inscription in prose or verse in which all the letters corresponding to Roman numerals… -
Chronology (CRONOLOGIA)
CHRONOLOGY. - The study of historical sources (chronicles and documents) requires the historian and the diplomatist to check the date… -
Concurrent (CONCORRENTI)
CONCURRENT DAYS (CONCORRENTI). - Conventional figures used by computists to determine which day of the week corresponds to the beginning of… -
Cyclos Magnus (CYCLUS MAGNUS)
CYCLOS MAGNUS. - Also called the Easter cycle or annus magnus, resulting from the combination of the 28-year solar cycle and the… -
Ecclesiastical Computation (COMPUTO ECCLESIASTICO)
ECCLESIASTICAL COMPUTATION. - È definito dagli scrittori: « notizia del corso della luna e delle calende, o scienza di determinare il tempo… -
Embolismals (EMBOLISMALI)
EMBOLISMALS. - This was the name given by the Greeks to the months to which intercalary days were added in order to make the lunar cycle… -
Epact (EPATTA)
EPACT. - From the Greek ἐπάγειν (to add), it is the number that indicates, from year to year and at a determined moment, the excess of days… -
Indiction (INDIZIONE)
INDICTION. - A chronological computation based on a fifteen-year cycle whose years are numbered progressively from 1 to 15 and designated… -
Lunar Cycle (CICLO LUNARE)
LUNAR CYCLE. - In chronology this name (Latin circulus lunae, or lunaris; French cycle lunaire; German Mondzyklus) designates a period of… -
Paschal Term (TERMINUS PASCHALIS)
PASCHAL TERM. - It is the date of the day that coincides with the XIV moon of the "first month" (nīzān, according to the Hebrew liturgical… -
Regulars (REGOLARI)
REGULARS. - Conventional and invariable numbers that served to find certain dates; there were three kinds of r., namely the solar r.… -
Solar Cycle (CICLO SOLARE)
SOLAR CYCLE. - È il nome dato impropriamente a un periodo di 28 anni solari (latino circulus solis, francese cycle solaire, tedesco… -
Sunday Letter (LETTERA DOMENICALE)
SUNDAY LETTER. - Al fine di conoscere in quali giorni dell'anno cadevano le domeniche, fu immaginato dai cronologi medievali il sistema… -
Year, Beginning of the (ANNO, INIZIO DELL')
YEAR, Beginning of the. - The practice of beginning the years of the common era with January 1, according to the modern or Circumcision… -
Year (Consular) (ANNO (CONSOLARE))
YEAR (CONSULAR). - The practice of naming years after the ordinary consuls (not the "suffect" consuls), whence their appellation…