I just noticed each day in the daily feast day tropars/kondaks part of my casoslov has a red numeral next to it. It cycles from 7 to 1 for seven days and then starts at 7 again and continues through the whole year. Does anyone know what this numeral means. I added photos of a couple days in a row to help explain what I'm referring to. They are the little red numerals to the left of the number designating the date.
Possibly related to the Dominical Letters or concurrents?
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Saint Bede does not seem to have been familiar with dominical letters, given his "De temporum ratione"; in its place he adopted a similar device of Greek origin consisting of seven numbers, which he denominated "concurrentes" (De Temp. Rat., Chapter LIII). The "concurrents" are numbers that denote the days of the week on which March 24 occurs in the successive years of the solar cycle, 1 denoting Sunday, 2 (feria secunda) for Monday, 3 for Tuesday, et cetera; these correspond to dominical letters F, E, D, C, B, A, and G, respectively.
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