[Ansteorra] Happy New Year!!

Bob Dewart gilli at hot.rr.com
Wed May 2 03:29:32 PDT 2007


Thanks.

Gilli
Burkhaven, An Odyssey of Learning
http://home.hot.rr.com/burkhaven/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alasdair MacEogan" <alasdair at bmhanson.net>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Happy New Year!!


> As of today it is AS 42.
>
>
>>  -------Original Message-------
>>  From: Bob Dewart <gilli at hot.rr.com>
>>  Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Happy New Year!!
>>  Sent: 01 May '07 16:10
>>
>>  I'm confussed, which is not new at all. The Black Star has both AS 41 
>> and
>>  AS 42. Which is it?
>>
>>  Gilli
>>  Burkhaven, An Odyssey of Learning
>>  http://home.hot.rr.com/burkhaven/
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: "Chiara Francesca" <chiara.francesca at gmail.com>
>>  To: "ansteorra at ansteorra.org" <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
>>  Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:11 PM
>>  Subject: [Ansteorra] Happy New Year!!
>>
>>
>>  Happy New Year!!
>>
>>  Today is May 1st
>>  Anno Societatis XXXXII (42)
>>  (Being 2007 C.E.)
>>
>>  "Any number of other variant or alternative forms may also be found,
>>  especially in the imprint dates of books from earlier centuries. These 
>> forms
>>  include the use of the long versions of the numbers 400 (CCCC) or 40
>>  (XXXX) -- these were actually the preferred forms in ancient times and 
>> still
>>  appear in 20th-century books -- as well as XXC for LXXX, IC for XCIX, 
>> VIX
>>  for XVI, or IIXX for XVIII, to mention only a few of the more obvious
>>  variant patterns. "
>>
>>  From:
>>  http://www2.inetdirect.net/~charta/Roman_numerals.html
>>
>>
>>  1. For an overview of the Roman calendar see the discussion of the
>>  "Development of the Modern Calendar" under the entry for Calendar in The
>>  Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, ©2000. Also extremely useful for
>>  converting Roman calendar dates is Otfried Lieberknecht's Calendar Tools
>>  (JavaScript calculator).
>>
>>  2. See also Edward R. Hobbs' playful Compvter Romanvs (Java applet), a 
>> true
>>  calculator which accepts Roman numerals in the range 1 - 3,999,999,
>>  validates the input, and performs basic mathematical functions --  
>> addition,
>>  subtraction, multiplication, and division.
>>
>>  3. The smaller number must be a power of ten (I, X or C) and precede a
>>  number no larger than 10 times its own value. The smaller number itself 
>> can
>>  be preceded only by a number at least 10 times greater (e.g. LXC is 
>> invalid)
>>  and it must also be larger than any numeral that follows the one from 
>> which
>>  it is being subtracted (e.g. CMD is invalid).
>>
>>  4. Cappelli indicates that the Romans rarely used the subtraction 
>> principle
>>  and that the convention was equally uncommon during the Middle Ages. See 
>> his
>>  Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane, 6th ed., Milano, 1967, p.
>>  LIV.
>>
>>  5. Chronograms are sentences, phrases, inscriptions, or other brief 
>> texts
>>  that contain dates embedded within them, usually in the form of upper 
>> case
>>  Roman numerals. If upper case letters appear on the title page of a book
>>  seemingly at random, the letters may well represent a chronogram for the
>>  date of publication. The intended date can usually be deciphered by 
>> making a
>>  simple total of all of the letters' corresponding numerical values 
>> without
>>  regard for their order (the order isn't usually meaningful). For 
>> example,
>>  the phrase "I MarrIeD LuCy In CInCInnatI" would suggest that its author 
>> was
>>  married in 1856.
>>
>>  6. See R.B. McKerrow, Introduction to Bibliography for Literary 
>> Students,
>>  Oxford, 1927 (appendix 3) for a brief discussion. Also his fuller 
>> treatment
>>  of 16th-century practices in The Library, 3rd Ser., no. 1.
>>
>>  7. Sometimes referred to as a "backwards C", although the term is not
>>  strictly accurate. Like modern-day rubber stamps, type used in making 
>> early
>>  books consisted of a raised printing surface (face) cast on a solid body
>>  (shank) with no reverse-side image. Consequently, it wasn't physically
>>  possible to turn type over, or backwards, to create an exact mirror 
>> image
>>  such as this:
>>  (image of a backwards C)
>>  Rather, printers would reverse the C by rotating the type 180 degrees to 
>> an
>>  upside down position.
>>
>>  This is the classic form of the apostrophic C, used throughout the era 
>> of
>>  the handpress and still occasionally found in printed books today. 
>> Digital
>>  technology of course makes it a simple matter to produce backwards, or
>>  mirror image letters, as can be seen in the Unicode Consortium's 
>> published
>>  standard for the apostrophic C, or ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED
>>  (Unicode glyph U+2183, v. 4.0 (.pdf)).
>>
>>  8. Bongo's curious work on "the mystery of numbers" (or Numerorum 
>> Mysteria,
>>  as it was commonly known), was first published in two parts at Bergamo
>>  (1583-1584) and frequently reissued. The partial table reproduced here
>>  originally appeared in the 1614 edition and was scanned from a text
>>  illustration in David Smith's Rara Arithmetica, Boston, 1908 (see figs.
>>  190-191). Click here to view a reproduction of the title-page of Bongo's
>>  original work (part 2, dated 1584), which bears a Roman numeral imprint 
>> date
>>  displaying several of the features under discussion.
>>
>>
>>  Chiara
>>
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