Time Computations and Dionysius Exiguus

Exiguus Dionysius , Liber de Paschate (Praefatio), Cyclus decemnovennalis (Paschal tables), Argumenta Paschalia; critical edition in Migne J. P. , Patrologia Latina (hereafter PL), lxvii (Paris, 1865), cols 483–508.

Hoffman Benjamin , Historia Cycli Dionysii (Prague), published in Migne J. P. , PL, lxvii, cols 453–83; cf. ibid., col. 466f. See also Peitz Wilhelm M. , Gratian und Dionysius Exiguus, Stc. I (Berlin, 1953), 53–79, and Dionysius Exiguus-Studien: Textanalyse der Dekretsammlung, ed. by Foerster H. (Berlin, 1960).

Alexandrinus Clemens , Stromata , I.21, &sC;&sC;144–7. The Greek text with French translation will be found in Sources Chrétiennes, no. 30 (Paris, 1951), 148–51.

Caesariensis Eusebius , Ecclesiasticae historiae libri X; critical edition in Migne J. P. , Patrologia Graeca et Latina , xx (Paris, 1857), cols 82–130; Eusèbe de Césarée, Histoire ecclesiastique, Sources Chrétiennes, no. 31 (Paris, 1952), Lib. I.V, 2; ibid., no. 41 (1955), Lib. V-VII.

Exiguus Dionysius , Epistolaprima scripta anno Christi 525, PL, lxvii, cols 19–23. (The quoted passages translated by Teres G. ).

Bickerman Joseph Elias , Chronology of the ancient world (London, 1980), 78–81.

Geminus , Eisagogé eis ta phainómena , ed. by Manitius K. (Leipzig, 1898), 32–39; Migne J. P. , PL, lxvii, cols 455–6, a-g.

Moon tables: Phases of the Moon 601 B. C.-2700 A.D., computed by Brahde Rolf (Nordanger, Bergen, 1977).

Buchner Edmund , “Solarium Augusti und Ara Pacis”, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Mitteilungen, lxxxiii (1976), 319ff., and lxxxvii (1980), 355ff. (Sun-dial and Peace-altar of Augustus, built in 13–9 b.c. on the Campus Martius or March Square in Rome, recently restored by means of archaeological finds and ancient notices).

Venerabilis Beda , De ratione temporum, critical edition in the Corpus Christianorum, Series latina, cxxiii B (Turnholt, 1977), 427–60.

The Synoptic Gospels in The Jerusalem Bible (London, 1966), 93, note (b) to Luke 2:2, and 95, note (a) to Luke 3: 1. Cf. ibid., Chronological table, Supplements, 466.

“Res Gestae Divi Augusti”, The achievements of the Divine Augustus (London, 1973): The complete text of the Monumentum Ancyranum, published and commented on by Brunt P. A. and Moore J. M. .

Ibid., &sC;8.3, and notes to &sC;8, p. 46.

d'Occhieppo Ferrari Konradin , “The star of Bethlehem”, Quarterly journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, xix (1978), 517–20. See also Hughes David W. , The star of Bethlehem mystery (London, 1979), 189–94.

d'Occhieppo Ferrari K. , Der Stern der Weisen—Geschichte oder Legende? (Vienna, 1977), 69–71.

Ginzel F. K. , Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie (Leipzig, 1914), &sC;246: Die christliche Ära, 178–85.

Liebenam Willy , Fasti consulares imperii Romani von 30 v. Chr. bis 565 n. Chr. (Bonn, 1909), 54 (a.d. 525); Degrassi Attilio , I Fasti consolari dell' Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dapo Cristo (Rome, 1952), 5 (746 a.u.) and 98 (1278 a.u.).

Neugebauer O. , “On the Computus Paschalis of ‘Cassiodorus’”, Centaurus, xxv (1982), 292–302. (The Computus of Cassiodorus will be found in Migne J. P. , PL , lxix, cols 1249–50. This is a practical application of Dionysius's Paschal rules, with the year 562 as an example. The comparison between the two original texts shows that the ten rules of Cassiodorus's “Computus” is no literal copy of Dionysius's “Argumenta”.)