Computus.lat is free for any to use. However, updating and maintaining Computus.lat costs time and money. Over the last years, I have funded the website myself. To ensure the future of the platform, I am starting a Patreon Campaign. If… Read More »Introducing Computus.lat Patreon Campaign
Because I maintain and develop www.computus.lat in my spare time and without any funding, I am unable to implement new features on a regular basis. However, since I started working on publishing datasets and resources, culminating in re-publishing the entire… Read More »Computus.lat roadmap
The following resource is based on the appendix ‘Lunar letters and other calendar series’ in Charles W. Jones, Bedea Pseudepigraphia: Scientific Writings Falsely Attributed to Bede (London, Oxford University Press, 1939), pp. 108-110. The numbers of the calendar series by Jones are… Read More »Calendar structure
Computus.lat is back online! Beyond what I was expecting, I managed to restore Computus.lat to its former glory. I will continue to publish recources and datasets on this website. Also, updates about Computus.lat will continue to be published on this… Read More »Computus.lat is back online
The interactive map of the computistical network of Lorsch is back online.
The interactive maps of the places of preservation (and some place of provenance) of more than 550 manuscripts containing computus is back online.
Table of contents Source: Arno Borst, Schriften zur Komputistik im Frankenreich von 726 bis 818 in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters (Hannover, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2006).
The Mirador viewer with 191 digitized computistical manuscripts is back online.
Table of contents Source: Arno Borst, Der karolingische Reichskalender und seine Überlieferung bis ins 12. Jahrhundert in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Libri memoriales (Hannover, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2001). Reichskalender For the old version of this resource, see: https://computus.lat/reichskalender/. Source: Arno Borst, Der… Read More »Easy access to Arno Borst’s Reichskalender
Unfortunately, www.computus.lat ran into a number of technical issues at the end of 2022. Firstly, the software on the web server was outdated. Because updates were no longer available, a migration to a new server was necessary. While migrating the… Read More »Why Computus.lat was down (and wrongfully discontinued)