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Easter

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Calculations for date of Easter, 14th century

 part
Identifier: MS 107/ff. 179r-179v
Contents

This section contains calculations for the date of Easter. It starts on f. 179r and ends on f. 179v.



Writing

This section is written in the same hand as the previous section, but differs from the hand that wrote the first 166 folios. It is a 14th-century English hand.

Dates: 14th century

Note about Didonaich turneis [Di-Dòmhnaich Tùrnais/Palm Sunday], 25 March 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/24
Scope and Contents

Note about Didonaich turneis [Di-Dòmhnaich Tùrnais/Palm Sunday] describing the custom of striking and rolling boiled eggs against someone else's on Palm Sunday, with the one whose egg breaks another's egg gaining that egg. Eggs are also described as being rolled on the green sward, again an individual gaining any egg their egg hits.

Dates: 25 March 1872

Note on Easter customs with eggs, 7 April 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/50
Scope and Contents

Note on Easter customs involving keeping eggs standing and rolling eggs downhill. Text has been scored through as if to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 7 April 1869

Rhyme about Shrove Tuesday beginning 'Chiad Dimairt an t-Solus', 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/213
Scope and Contents

Rhyme about Shrove Tuesday beginning 'Chiad Dimairt an t-Solus'. Text has been scored through as if copied elsewhere.

Dates: 1884

Two proverbs relating to Lent and Easter, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/144
Scope and Contents

Two proverbs relating to Lent and Easter which read 'A chiad Dimairt an tSolus Earraich Dimairt Inid' and 'Seac seacainean o aois gu bas eadar Caisg 'us Inid.'

Dates: June 1887