The Chronography of 354 AD. Part 6: the calendar of Philocalus. Inscriptiones Latinae Antiquissimae, Berlin (1893) pp.256-278. Die Calenderbilder, Berlin (1888) figures 19, 20, 22-28, 30, 32.
MENSIS IANVARIVS
habet dies XXXI.
MENSIS FEBRVARIVS
habet dies XXVIII.
MENSIS MARTIVS
habet dies XXXI.
MENSIS APRILIS
habet dies XXX.
MENSIS MAIVS
habet dies XXXI.
MENSIS IVNIVS
habet dies XXX.
MENSIS IVLIVS
habet dies XXXI.
MENSIS AVGUSTVS
habet dies XXXI.
MENSIS SEPTEMBER
habet dies XXX.
MENSIS OCTOBER
habet dies XXXI.
MENSIS NOVEMBER
habet dies XXX.
MENSIS DECEMBER
habet dies XXXI.
Notes to the online edition
The original consisted of the image on the left-hand page, and the table on the right-hand page. This has been reproduced above. The page which had the January image was lost from the archetype of all the illustrated copies. Abbreviations:
CM = Circenses missus ('games ordered')
N = Natalis ('birthday')
LVDI = games
Senatus legitimus = Senate allowed (days on which the senate could sit)
Dies Aegyptiacus = Egyptian days (unlucky days)
The second column is the days of the week. The third is the 'nundinales' ('nine day cycle'), which refers to the fact that market day in Rome was every 8 days, and the cycle counted both ends.
The images come from these manuscripts: Barberini Ms: February, March (another March from the Brussels ms. is included by Strzygowski as plate 21), August, September, October, November, December. Vienna Ms: April, May, June, July. Plates 29 and 31 are the facing pages from the Rome ms. for October and November.
The solar symbol is included in Mommsen, CIL, but is not visible on the pages of other mss. printed by Strzygowski or in Inscriptiones Italiae.
This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse, 2006. All material on this page is in the public domain - copy freely. The text was edited by Theodore Mommsen.
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