indiction

In some areas it was collected by indiction year, every month.

The papal indiction is the only one ever used at the present day.

If the remainder is zero, then the indiction is 15.

"This estate is legally exempt from the general indiction, and they know it perfectly well!"

Written in the year 6501 since the creation, indiction VI."

The indiction was first used to date documents unrelated to tax collection in the mid-fourth century.

In a number of cases it ousted earlier conventions, such as the indiction or year of grace (see later).

In Saxon times two other conventions were adopted, both based on Indiction (see next section).

He was careless, and in S 963 gave the indiction as the fourth when it was actually the fourteenth.

There were three different varieties of indiction, each starting on a different day of the year.

Thus 2001 was the ninth indiction.

Dating according to indiction remained standard.

The first contemporary document in which he appears as abbot is dated to January of that year (the fourth indiction).

"In the year 6738 (1230), third indiction.

Start of the Indiction, beginning the Liturgical Year.

But the growing number of conservative church leaders is having little effect on the thinking of the laymen, if a new survey is any indiction.

An indiction is any of the years in a 15-year cycle used to date medieval documents throughout Europe, both East and West.

The indiction was a cycle of fifteen years computed always from AD312, and in practice there were three ways to calculate the opening date.

In the fifth year of his reign, in January of the fifteenth indiction, 6751 (1243) a great conflagration took place.

The currency is based upon gold solidi issued by Constantine; the date is reckoned by the year of indiction.

The bull was issued on 13 April 1059XIIth Indiction.

Each year of a cycle was numbered: first indiction, second indiction, etc.

"Indictione decima" (Indiction 10) is the year beginning January 1, which agrees with modern reckoning.

Start of the indiction year (Late Roman Empire; at least since the time of Bede)

Sometimes the start of the year was reckoned as 24 September, the start of the so-called "western indiction" introduced by Bede.