Lunaria "Days" (i.e., nights) of the moon

Middle English [mostly birth-dates]

"day"

MLA

MEL

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pp. 150-176 MSS Oxford, BodL, Digby 88, ff. 64r-75r

pp. 315-318 Latin Lunarium, in Aberystwyth, MS Peniarth 26, pp. 15-16

pp. 190-194 MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 391, pt. 1, ff. 3v-5r

p. 106 "The Thyrrty Days" & p. 107 R4 = BL Royal 17.A.III

         

1st

>adam

     

2nd

H.awwah

     

3rd

Qayin

     

4th

Hebel

     

5th

offerings by Hebel & Qayin

     

6th

"Nabyr" [hardly (as per p. 277) "Manasseh", as a hunter (p. 155) more likely Nimrod] & Effren

"Naber" & "Effrem"

"Ebron" [H.ebro^n in often stated as the location of garden of <eden]

 

7th

Hebel was slain

   

Daniye>l (R4)

8th

Mtu^-s^elah.

     

9th

Yo^h.an the Evangelist

 

Nbu^-kad-nes.s.ar

 

10th

Noh.a

     

11th

S^em

 

S^mu^->el

Noh.a (R4)

12th

Mos^eh

"Caym" [hardly "Ham" (as per p. 271), but more likely H.ayyim]

Kna<an

Mos^eh (ThD)

13th

Noh.a planted grapevines

     

14th

Noh.a blessed his son S^em

     

15th

"Sammell" (not likely (as per p. 280) "Samuel", more likely Sama>el): his enemy fell

[fall of] Tower of Babel

 

>ahro^n blessed S^im<o^n (R4)

16th

"Necorne" [= Nah.arina (in Assyrian)]

Nah.o^r

   

17th

Sdom & <morrah sank

     

18th

Yis.haq

     

19th

Ya<qob was begotten

     

20th

Ya<qob was blessed by his father Yis.haq

 

Yo^nah the prophet

 

21st

<es`aw was blessed by his father Yis.haq

 

S^a>ul

<es`aw

22nd

Yo^sep

     

23rd

Maria Magdalene

 

Ben-yamin [the 2nd one, as in 1st Chr. 7:10 & 8:1]

Mos^eh

24th

Peres.

 

Yepet

>ahro^n

25th

Par<oh

   

Yes^u<a

26th

Par<oh was drowned

 

passage through Re[e]d Sea

passage through Re[e]d Sea

27th

"Vrie" (instead of (as per p. 282) <uryah; emend (as cited on p. 282) to <ira> perhaps Iri (of 1st Chr. 7:7)] ["Berie" (p. 318, fn. 7), is probably Bri<ah (of 1st Chr. 8:13)]

 

rained angels' food (manna)

"Urie" (ThD)

28th

S^ims^o^n

return by spies to Yho^-shu<a

 

S^ims^o^n

29th

S^lomoh

S^mu^->el

king H.rod killed the Innocents

"Christ blessed this day"

30th

>ab-s^alo^m

     

{the 29th day of the month is blessed also according to the rN~in-ma}

MLA = Laurel Means: Medieval Lunar Astrology. Edwin Mellen Pr, Lewiston, 1993.

MEL = ME’MOIRES DE LA SOCIE’TE’ NE’OPHILOLOGIQUE DE HELSINKI, Tome LXVII. Irma Taavitsainen: Middle English Lunaries. Helsinki, 1988.