The lengthiest sections of this little book listed annual fairs in England and Wales of fixed and moveable date.

One has been called the Proper of Time or Temporale, associated with the moveable date of Easter and the fixed date of Christmas.

Ironically, 40 years later, his daughter Gloria would devalue the meaning of this special day by making Independence Day a moveable date subject to the expediency of holiday economics.

The length of the season of Epiphany varies and is determined by working backwards through the season of Lent from the moveable date for the celebration of Easter.

This was the first of two festivals involving the curiae, the other being the Fornacalia on February 17, which differed in that there was no ritual of state corresponding to the local ceremonies and its moveable date was fixed annually by the curio maximus.