In February is the 3, the 8, the 17, and the 18 / In Marche the 6, the 15, and the 18 / In Aprill the laste day / In May the 8, the 15, the 16, and the 20 / In June only the 8 day / In July the 15 and the 19 / In August the 19 and the 20 / In September the 16 and the 18 / In October the 6 day allwayes / In Nouember the 15 and the 19 / In December the 6, the 8, and the 15 /Īmong the numerous lists of unlucky days which the present writer has 5 For the best general discussions, see LYNN THORNDIKE, A History of Magic and Experinmental Science, The dayes in January daungerus and Mortall is the 1, the 2, the 4, the 5, the 7, the 15 and the 19, continualy as it acompteth / The present manuscript reads as follows:įyding this in an olde wrytten Booke / and as vntrue as olde, I it tooke Marking in eche Monethe Malignant dayes and in forme following thus it sayes / In Roman times and in the earlier Middle Ages, the twenty-four "Dies Aegyptiaci" were believed to occur annually,6 each month having two unlucky days in the following centuries an incredible number7 of varying lists of evil days made their appearance. Reaching as far back as the earliest days of Mesopotamian culture,5 the "dies fasti et nefasti" have formed part of European folklore certainly since the time of Hesiod's 'Hlippat. Turning first of all to the astrological tracts, we note that the first item discusses the unlucky days which occur annually. 15b-16bĪs the English items are unusually interesting, it seems eminently desirable to make these texts available in print. Astrological notes and diagrams, in Latin, ff. Cotton Vespasian E VII, the table appears to have been compiled for 140 years from 1367 see the note in CHAUCER'S Treatise on the Astrolabe (EETS, 1905, p. Royal 2 B VIII (Cf.WARNER and GILSON, Cat. note states that the table was "calculated by JOHN SOMUR, Ann0 1364." According to DNB (LIII, 218), JOHN SOMER compiled the table in 1380 so in MS. 3 Included in the text is a reference to "this yeare 1549." Of course the present manuscript may onlyīe a copy, preserving the date of the original, but on palaeographical grounds this date suits the style of the handwriting.Ĥ A MS. are picked out in what was then the new "italic" script. 2 The manuscript is written in the usual sixteenth-century "secretary" hand except that important 6b1-llbġ For Part I, see MLN, LIII, 245-9. Astrological tables and figures, mostly in Latin, ff.
Lists of unlucky days and a thunder-book, f. added at the end." Written in the mid-sixteenth century,2 this manuscript contains the follow- ing items:ġ. 93), there is a short notation to the effect that a copy of CAX- TON'S Myrrour of the World in The Pierpont IN SEYMOUR DE RICCI'S A Census of Caxtons (Bibliographical Society, 1909, p. Sixteenth-Century Prognostications Libri Impressi cum Notis Manuscriptis-Part II1
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