- 19-year
cycle is
called its
golden number. This term was
first used in the
computistic poem M****a
Compoti by
Alexander de
Villa Dei in 1200. A
later scribe...
- in gold. The term
became widely known and used, in part
through the
computistic poem M****a
Compoti written by
Alexander de
Villa Dei
around 1200. Dominical...
- by the date of
Easter Sunday having been
traced back
through numerous computistic tables to an
Ethiopic copy of an
early Alexandrian table beginning with...
- January. Its prin****l use is in
determining the date of
Easter by
computistical methods. It
varies (usually by 11 days) from year to year,
because of...
- as a wheel, with the
Julian date of the
Easter New Moon, from a 9th-century
computistic m****cript made in St. Emmeram's
Abbey (Clm 14456, fol. 71r)...
- on the
intellectual life of
later Anglo-Saxon
England and
wrote many
computistic, hagiographic, and
historical works. He was a
leading man of science...
-
switched to ****agesimal fractions, but
rendered them more
congenial to
computistical use by
applying them not to the day but to the hour,
thereby inaugurating...
-
astrolabe to
observe the time of
eclipses in
order to test the
validity of
computistical tables. By the 12th century,
scholars were
traveling to
Spain and Sicily...
- Etymologiae;
extract from Cyprian, Ad
Quirinum Testimonia, book iii;
computistical texts; and
Easter tables. (1) fos. 3-117, 8th and 9th-century material...
- 23631), 9th
century Codex Aureus of St.
Emmeram (Clm 14000), c. 870
Computistic ms. of St.
Emmeram (Clm 14456),
early 9th
century Prayerbook of Otto...
