ID 1360781
Lot 65 | Tabulae astronomicae
Estimate value
$ 5 000 – 8 000
Second edition of the Alphonsine Tables. "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 36). This work supplements al-Zarqali with a few new (thirteenth-century) observations but uses the same format and "retain[s] the Ptolemaic system for explaining celestial motion" (DSB). This edition includes Santritter's Canones in tabulas Alphonsi and an exchange of letters beween Santritter and Augustinus Moravus. H 869; GW 1258; Goff A-535; Klebs 50.2; BMC V 424; ISTC ia00535000.
Chancery quarto (205 x 153mm). 114 leaves. Decorative initials and head-piece ornaments (some soiling on title-page, partially erased stamp on A2, some modern marginalia on A3, a few leaves lightly toned). Modern flexible vellum. Provenance: Owen Gingerich (bookplate).
| Place of origin: | Spain |
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| Place of origin: | Spain |
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| Auction house category: | Antiquarian books, Printed books |
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