The Alphonsine Tables

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05.02.2026 10:00UTC +00:00
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ALPHONSUS X, King of Castile and Leon (1221-1284). Tabulae astronomicae [and:] Johannes DANCK (fl. first half 14th century). Canones in tabulas Alphonsi. [Venice:] Erhard Ratdolt, 4 July 1483.

First edition of the Alphonsine tables, a guide for calculating the position of the planets compiled in 13th-century Toledo. "Alfonso X ("The Learned"), King of Castile and Leon from 1252-1282, sponsored translations of scientific works from Arabic into Latin and Castilian, the most important of which was a new edition of the Toledan Tables of the eleventh-century Cordoban astronomer al-Zarqali" (Norman). The present text, which is a Latin translation from the original Castilian Spanish, presents a revised version of the tables completed in the early 14th century; Ratdolt prefaced it with the first appearance of John (Danck) of Saxony's almost equally popular canons, written in 1327, which completed the Alphonsine tables in several areas, including supplementary tables of the eclipses and several chapters on the latitudes of the planets. These tables were used by both Peurbach, for his Theoricae nova planetarum, and Copernicus. H *868; GW 1257; BMC V, 287; BSB-Ink T-6; Bod-inc A-220; Klebs 501.1; Stillwell Science 14; Norman 36; Goff A-534; ISTC ia00534000. Exhibited: "The Heavens Revealed," Chapin Library, Williams College, 2003.

Royal median quarto (223 x 157mm). 94 leaves. Printed in red and black. Woodcut initials and diagrams, some initials hand-colored in red in first gathering (gatherings a-c repaired at gutter, first two leaves with more substantial repairs around the edges and in text, with some loss; gathering d with some small repairs to edges and corners, in one case touching a printed rule). 19th-century gray painted boards with gilt and ink paneling, spine gilt in compartments, edges red, manuscript title added to flyleaf. Custom box. Provenance: washed and faded inscription on first leaf, a few marginal comments – erased stamp on first text leaf – Owen Gingerich (bookplate).
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