Primary source · Koine Greek
The Paschal Canons
Anatolius of Laodicea · c. AD 270
What this text is
The Alexandrian mathematician-bishop applies astronomy to the church's hardest calendar problem — the nineteen-year Easter cycle, praised and excerpted by Eusebius.
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Public-domain translations
S. D. F. Salmond (ANF, 1886)
In the first year the new moon of the first month, which is the beginning of every cycle of nineteen years, falls on the twenty-sixth day of the Egyptian Phamenoth… as the two luminaries pass each other.
Manuscript witnesses
Eusebius, HE VII.32 (carrier) & the Latin 'De ratione paschali'
medieval copiesThe Greek canons survive in Eusebius's extract; a Latin computus under his name shaped the Insular Easter debates.
Provenance
Laodicea, c. AD 270 — the Alexandrian mathematician-bishop on Easter
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian EraAlden A. Mosshammer, 2008The standard study of the paschal science.
- Anatolius and the Paschal Canon (in: McCarthy & Breen, De ratione paschali)Daniel McCarthy & Aidan Breen, 2003Edition and study of the Latin Anatolian computus.