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Notes towards the compilation of a reformed Calendar for the year 1644, written in about 1644, chiefly by T. Lydyat

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MS. Bodl. 671
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Notes towards the compilation of a reformed Calendar for the year 1644, with successive drafts of parts, and calculations of various kinds. Some of the divisions are:

  1. (fols. 1, 6b) 'An Almanach framed ... for the year since the Gospell ... began to bee preached, 1616 ... beginning ... at the ... Spring Aequinoct, the same being, according to the vulgar account ... 1644' with 'Chronicall Canons or Rules of Chronologie', dated Alkerton, Feb. 16, 1643/4;
  2. (fol. 19) 'An Almanach for twentie nine years' 1639-1668;
  3. (fol. 21) 'Caput decimum octavum. Publicæ lectiones sacræ totius anni', a reformed lectionary;
  4. (fols. 29, 38, 70) lunar calculations;
  5. (fol. 30) 'Solis et lunæ periodus octode-sexcentenaria, sive Annus Magnus.'

Parts are copied out in the Italian hand common in England at this time, by a clerk (fols. 1-11, 19-20, etc.).

Dates

  • Creation: written in about 1644, chiefly by T. Lydyat

Extent

121 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • English
  • Latin

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 671

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. V, no. 27557.

Physical Facet

On paper

Dimensions

7 6/8 × 4 1/2 in.

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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