[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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