The Praefatio (Prologus) Sancti Cyrilli de Paschate and the 437-year (not 418!) Paschal list attribu...

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" The Praefatio (Prologus) Sancti Cyrilli de Paschate and the 437-year (not 418!) Paschal list attributed to Theophilus "
Alden A. Mosshammer

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085313
Doc. No	:	LA128942
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341116‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Alden A. Mosshammer
Title & Author	:	The Praefatio (Prologus) Sancti Cyrilli de Paschate and the 437-year (not 418!) Paschal list attributed to Theophilus [Article]\ Alden A. Mosshammer
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Vigiliae Christianae
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	67/1
Page No	:	49–78
Abstract	:	The Editio Princeps of the Prologus Sancti Cyrilli de Paschate was published by Denis Petau in 1627 from a manuscript in which the author attributed a 418-year list of dates for Passover and Easter to Theophilus of Alexandria, which the author claimed to have abbreviated to 95 years. Bruno Krusch used two additional manuscripts for his 1880 edition, in which the number attributed to Theophilus is 428. Scholars have argued that 418 must be the correct original number, because 428 is not a multiple of 19. Three previously neglected manuscripts show that the number was originally 437. The author of this text deduced that the 95-year list began approximately 438 years after the birth of Christ and therefore surmised that it was a continuation of a 437-year list that began with Passover in the first year after the Nativity. The 418 years may have been substituted by a redactor who was misled by a postscript that appears in two of the manuscripts. The Editio Princeps of the Prologus Sancti Cyrilli de Paschate was published by Denis Petau in 1627 from a manuscript in which the author attributed a 418-year list of dates for Passover and Easter to Theophilus of Alexandria, which the author claimed to have abbreviated to 95 years. Bruno Krusch used two additional manuscripts for his 1880 edition, in which the number attributed to Theophilus is 428. Scholars have argued that 418 must be the correct original number, because 428 is not a multiple of 19. Three previously neglected manuscripts show that the number was originally 437. The author of this text deduced that the 95-year list began approximately 438 years after the birth of Christ and therefore surmised that it was a continuation of a 437-year list that began with Passover in the first year after the Nativity. The 418 years may have been substituted by a redactor who was misled by a postscript that appears in two of the manuscripts.
Descriptor	:	95-Year Cyrillan List
Descriptor	:	Computus
Descriptor	:	Cyril of Alexandria
Descriptor	:	Paschal Controversies
Descriptor	:	Theophilus of Alexandria
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341116‬