[DCRM-L] Lady day date confusion

[Erin Blake]

It's even more complicated than that: Lady Day Dating and the
Julian/Gregorian Calendar are two separate things. Here's how I explained
the difference to myself, which later went into a Folger blog post:
>
> It’s especially important for researchers working with British documents
> to remember that Lady Day dating (affecting year numbering every 1 January
> through 24 March) and the Julian calendar (affecting day numbering year
> round) are separate because they were not modernized at the same time.
> Scotland officially dropped Lady Day dating after 31 December 1599, which
> was followed by 1 January 1600, but continued to use the Julian calendar
> until Wednesday 2 September 1752, which was followed by Thursday 14
> September 1752. England and Wales also switched from the Julian calendar in
> September 1752, but had already modernized year numbering the previous
> January (31 December 1751 was followed by 1 January 1752).

See https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/untangling-dating/ for the whole
post.

Short version: if you've got an English imprint with an exact day and year,
and the day was within 1 January and 24 March, and the year was 1751 or
earlier, add one to the year.

Erin



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On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:22 AM Huber, Seth via DCRM-L <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
wrote:

> I am working on some English political pamphlets primarily from the 1640s.
> Most of the records I have found in OCLC take the year as given on the
> piece, but in some cases the ESTC records have noted that Lady day dating
> has been used, while entries that exist in Wing take the date as given. I
> have not dealt with Lady day dating to this point, so I’m wondering if I
> should assume that it applies to everything printed before the region of
> origin adopted the Gregorian calendar or only take it into account when
> specified in a union list or some other reference source? At this point I
> can’t tell if I am overthinking or what and I would be glad for
> clarification on this. Thanks,
>
> Seth Huber
>
> Technical Services Librarian/Head of Cataloging
>
> University of Missouri—Columbia
>
> huberse at missouri.edu
>
> 573-884-4648
>
>
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