General Index
Abraham Bar Ḥayya
277–278, 281n121, 282, 285, 286, 288, 289
Abraham Ibn Ezra
247n5, 249n16, 249n18, 250, 266n65, 278
Abū Dhuʾayb
203–204
Abū Maʿshar al-Balkhī
193n
Alexander Monachus
119
Alexandria
32–33, 35–36, 46, 90, 106–108, 111
Almagest
34, 90, 97
almanac
220, 223, 236, 239, 268
Antinoopolis
20
Apollinopolis Magna (Edfu)
43–44
astrology, astrologers
23–27, 35–36, 49–50, 56–58, 69, 97–100, 122–123, 222–224;
see horoscope
astronomy, astronomers
23–24, 32, 34, 97–100, 132–135, 147–149, 152, 176, 202, 214–226, 277–279
Athanasius of Alexandria
90, 122
Augustine
56
Augustine (Irish)
137
Bede
60–61, 107n, 136–8, 147, 160–161, 166–168, 172–178
Bible
11–12, 279–280
birthday, emperor’s
88, 132
Bīrūnī, al- (al-Bayrūnī)
189nn, 194n14, 195n18, 196nn, 202n35, 206n41, 247
bissextile see leap years
Boniface, bishop
149–151, 156
Borst, Arno
135–136
Caesarius of Arles
56–57, 68
Cassius Dio
2, 33, 35
Censorinus
1–2
Charlemagne
129, 135–136, 151
Christmas
132, 151
Chronograph of 354
35–37, 69n184, 131–133
Clement of Alexandria
33, 39, 55
Codex cosmographiorum
137–138
Computus Einsidlensis
142–144, 154–155, 162–163, 165, 168–171, 174–175
Constantine the Great
46–47, 66–71
controversies
154–157, 247–248, 266–267, 271–272, 275
Cummian
138–139, 148, 154, 157
de ratione conputandi
142–143, 154–155, 163, 165, 168–175
Dead Sea Scrolls
13–17
Didache
58–59
dies ferialis
69
Dionysius Exiguus
139, 146–147, 162, 164–166, 169–171
Diospolis Magna (Thebes)
43
Disputatio Chori et Praetextati
139–143, 177
Dustūr al-munajjimīn
215
Easter
46, 132–139, 146–147, 151–157, 162–173, 279
Elephantine
12
epagomenals
106, 107n88, 211–213, 218, 222, 234–236
ephemerides
32–33, 49, 217–218, 220–222, 230–233, 238–239
Epiphanius of Salamis
89–90, 104
equinox
90n37, 150–153, 160, 164–166, 172–175, 202, 213–215, 222, 225–226
era, Seleucid (‘of Alexander’)
216, 219, 226–227, 229, 237–238, 272, 278
era, Yazdgird (III)
211–213, 216–221, 227–229, 231, 238
Eusebius
70, 90
Evronot
260, 275, 280
Farrāʾ, al-
194n14, 201n31
Fasti
24–25, 27–29, 130
Fursa and Foillan
153–5
Gordon, R.
268
Gregory the Great, pope
156–157, 178
hamuštum
11
Handy Tables
97–99
Hemerologia
80–84, 89–105, 108–123
Hijra
188–189, 204–207, 212–213, 216–218, 223–224
horoscopes
49–50, 94n52, 97–99, 105, 218–219, 237–238
hours see planetary hours
Ibn al-Athīr
214, 226
Ibn Hishām
199–200
ʿIggul
247, 249, 249n16, 252n32, 271, 280
Ignatius of Antioch
58–59
Ilmmuenster Kalenderfragment
149
Irenaeus of Lyon
56n134
Isaac Israeli
250, 261, 264n61, 269, 278, 288, 289
Isidore of Seville
61n157, 152, 164–165, 169–172
Iskandar Sultan
218–219, 237–238
Issachar Ibn Susan
260n46, 281
Jacob ben Asher
260, 268, 280, 281, 283–289
Joseph ben Yefet ha-Levi
265n62, 281, 283, 285
Josephus
21
Josiah b. Mevorakh (ibn) al-ʿĀqūlī:
248–249, 255–259, 262n51, 266, 270–274, 278, 286
Judaean documents
18–19, 45
Julius Caesar
7, 38, 84–85, 140, 206
Justinian Code
67n175, 109n92
Justin Martyr
32–33, 39, 55
Khāzinī, al-
214–215, 225–226
Khuwārizmī, al-
205n40
latercus
137n25, 154, 162, 164, 166–167, 171
leap years
84–86, 106–107, 130, 170–171, 225–226, 234–236
Le Goff, J.
222
Lent
146, 168–170
Life of Porphyry of Gaza
90, 104
lunar days
30, 52
lunar letters
160–161
lunar nodes
223
Maccabees
12, 17
Macrobius
107n88, 139–141
magic
49–50
Maimonides
266
Maimonides’ Sanctification of the Moon, Commentary
250, 264n61, 265n64, 285
Malikshāh, Seljuq Sultan
210, 212, 214–216, 218–219, 225–227, 233–237
Martin of Braga
56–57, 60, 68, 173
Martyrologium Hieronymianum
155–156
Masʿūdī, al-
194n14
Meimaris
19–20nn, 197n22;
see Zoar
Mercier, R.
191n8, 197n22
Mishnah
15n13, 20
Mithras
59, 68, 70
Moberg, A.
193n12
molad
247–248, 250–251, 255–256, 261, 263, 264n61, 268–270, 272
Munich Computus
142–143, 154–155, 162, 165, 168–175
Naḥshon ben Zadok Gaon
247–249, 251n30, 252n32, 254, 260, 270–271, 280, 286
Nāṣir-i Khusraw
213
Nawrūz
211–214, 218, 222, 231, 233–234, 239
Nawrūznāma
212–214, 233–234
New Testament (Greek)
20–21, 59, 151
Nivelles calendar
153–76
Nöldeke, Th.
195
Nonnosus
197–9
nundinae
25, 28–31, 44–45, 54
observatory
214, 226
parapegmata
30–31, 51–54
Paschasinus of Lilybaeum
139
Paul of Alexandria
36n83, 58
Peshitta
20
Philaster of Brescia
56
Photius
198–199
planetary hours
35–38
planets
22–23, 29–35, 50, 54–55, 58, 66, 223
Pliny the Elder
34n79, 38n84, 135, 147–148, 176
Plutarch
32, 34–35
Polemius Silvius
122–123, 132, 137–139, 172, 177
Pompeii
29–31, 44–45
Procopius
197–199
Profiat Duran
250, 261, 261n48, 278, 285, 287
Ptolemy see Almagest, Handy Tables
Quṭrub
194n14, 195n18
Sabbath
11–27, 33, 39–45, 58–62, 66–68
Sabians of Ḥarrān
196
Sachau, E.
195n18
Samaritans
245, 248, 250, 272
Satyricon
31, 51
Sefer Yetzirah
33–34, 36n83
Septuagint
15
Shaʿbī, al-
189n5
Siyāsatnāma
210
Sol Invictus
59n147, 68–70
solstices
57, 132, 151–153, 164–166, 174–175, 197–199
Sozomen
70
Sulpicius Severus see latercus
Sylvester (Pope)
61
Ṭabarī, al-
189n5, 199n28
Tahmasp, Shāh
219
Tertullian
39, 55, 61, 64
Tibullus
25–27, 34, 39
time
222–224
Ulugh Beg
215
ʿUmar
189, 191
ʿUmar Khayyām
212, 214, 226, 233–234
Vettius Valens
32, 35, 45–46
Victorius of Aquitaine
147, 162, 164, 166–167, 169–171
Walderdorffsches Kalenderfragment
149–150
Wellhausen, J.
195, 200, 204n39
Willibrord
134–135, 146–147, 156, 161, 168
Yaffe, Z. H.
268
yearbook
217–220
Zīj-i Īlkhānī
215, 234–237
Zīj-i Malikshāhī
214
Zīj al-Sanjarī
214, 216, 218, 225–226
Zoar
19–20, 49, 63–4
zodiac
50, 52–54, 122, 132, 140, 152, 202, 226, 236