Ստեփանոս Մեծրկա որդու ՇԼԲ (532) - ամյա Զատկացուցակը (վերականգնում) / The 532-Year Paschal Table of Stepanos, the Son of Metzrka (Restoration)

This study holds both calendrical and source-critical, as well as philological significance. The article attempts to restore the main rules of two 19-year cycles of 532-year Paschal table of Stepanos, the Son of Metzrka. In the article, we address the issue that Stepanos created a project for a stationary calendar, which recognizes the beginning of the year as Navasard 1 = March 1, by retrospectively calculating the equivalent of Navasard 1 = March 1 in the Armenian portable calendar, namely the four-year period of 1080-1083. Taking into account the above, we have presented the equivalents of the dates of holidays, seasons and astronomical phenomena occurring throughout the year, according to the draft stationary calendar compiled by Stepanos, the Son of Metzrka and Julian calendar. Considering this, we have presented the date equivalents of holidays, the seasons of the solar year, and astronomical phenomena throughout the year according to the Julian calendar and fixed calendar project of Stepanos, the Son of Metzrka. Referring to Stepanos, the Son of Metzrka and his “Interpretation of the Calendar”, taking as a basis the information reported by him, about the 19-year cycle of the full moon, the vruzeleto system (arm. յոթներյակ), as well as epact (arm. վերադիր), we tried to reconstruct the image of the two 19-year Easter lists created by him in tables. The 532-year Easter schedule compiled by Stepanos, the Son of Metzrka consists of 28 parts with a 19-year period of Full Moon. The rules of the list of Easter holidays reconstructed by us refer to the leap (arm. նահանջ), the year (the years of the first circle of the Great Paschal cycle [Շ-եակ] are given, also the great Armenian date of the second circle of the Great Paschal cycle, and the Dionysian year), the epact, the vruzeleto system, the 19-year Full Moon cycle and the Easter day. These rules given are accompanied by detailed commentaries that illustrate the choice of meanings presented to make the list.