sed quod a requietionum die, quæ suo nomine et cultu singularis excellebat, prima uel secunda uel tertia uel cæteræ suo quæque censerentur11 ex ordine.
f. 1b1
Proximum illi Mercorii sidus (ex diebus ocio)re* ambitu modo ante solis exortus, modo post occasus12, splendens nunquam ab eo .xxii partibus remotior.
quartæ13 (sc. diei).
Ferias14 uero hab(ere clerum pri)mus papa Syluester edocuit, cui Deo soli uacanti15 numquam militiam uel negotiationem liceat exercere mundanam.
Tertia species hebdomadis in celebratione pen(tecos)tes agitur, uii uidelieet septimanis dierum et monade16, (hoc est L) diebus impleta.
f. 1b2
fructibus, hoc est, frumenti, uini et olei ex ordine collectis17.
sicut quidam inmundi per legem prima, tertia et uiima die iubebantur lustrari18.
IX. embolesmos uero menses qui de annuís xi epactarum diebus accrescere solent non lege patria18a tertio uel altero anno singulos adieciens.
f. 2a1
qui xxuiiii diebus semis constat tricenis undetricenisque diebus...18b.
Ideoque si pascalis mensis xxx diebus conputatus, xuii sui cursus dies post pasca retinuerit secundum iam mensem non xxx sed undetriginta diebus19 concludi,…
quae praesenti19a anno, uerbi gratia per nonas Maias .xuii exstetit, anno sequenti xxuii pridie Nonas20 Maias occurret. notandum sane, quod nimium falluntur, qui mensem diffiniendum, uel ab antiquís diffinitum autumant, quandiu luna una Zodiacum circulum peragit, quae nimirum, sicut diligentior inquisitio naturarum edocuit,
11: noainmnigtis12: [marg. d.] is do árrachtu grene hitá[1] in céin[2] naili13: cetain14: .i. lanre sechtmaine15: beth feil do(i)bs(em)(l) ⁊ bithbiuth ch(um)s(a)nath16: uno .i. ondoenfiur17: do idbart18: .i. roglandis[3]18a: …acom˘ embo˘ .i. indeud… ⁊ ep̆e(?)18b: [marg. l.] ⁊ noichtech inso19: onaib laithib noichtechaib19a: (i)mbe[4]20: ⁊ xxuiii for nonas
11. they were named.12. ’tis to overtake[5] the sun in which it is at the other time.13. Wednesday.14. i.e. the full space of a week.15. a perpetual festival to them, and a perpetual rest from the world (lit. world-rest).16. i.e. from the one person.17. to be offered.18. i.e. (that) they should be cleansed.18a. i.e. after...18b. and this is a month of twenty-nine days.19. from the 29 days.19a. in which thou mayest be.20. and twenty-eight on nonas.
- ↑ The last letter is uncertain; it does not suggest a. It is difficult to read the first letter as h; it might be part of m. Emend to remitet? ‘which it precedes’ J. S.
- ↑ The photograph shews céi, after which no other letter seems to have followed
- ↑ leg. nonglandis, J. S.
- ↑ b is not clear, as it has no top
- ↑ árrachtu ( = ad-richtu), Sarauw, p. 72. acc. arrachtin infra 23. See O’Grady Cat. 323
