Ephemerides siue Almanach perpetuu[m]
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 291, item 5
Publisher: Petrus Liechtenstein
Published: 1498
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Ephemerides; Early works to 1800; Astronomy; Tables
Other titles: Ephemerides sive Almanach perpetuum; Almanach perpetuum.
Notes: The tables begin with the year 1473. Cf. Lalande.

"Tout l'ouvrage est composé de tables astronomiques"--Grässe.

"Authorship uncertain"--Klebs; long ascribed to Regiomontanus, more recent authorities attribute most of the tables to Abraham Zacuto. Cf. Cantera Burgos, F. A. Zacut, p. 64; Zinner, p. 365. The tables were edited by J.L. Santritter.

Imprint from colophon on leaf [122] verso, which reads: Expliciunt ephemerides solis [et] lune planetarumq[ue] perpetue impensis opera [et] arte impressionis mirifica Petri Liechtenstein Coloniensis Explete anno siderum conditoris 1498 Idibus Octobris Uenetijs Maximiliano Romanorum rege primo faustissime imperante[.] Cum gratia [et] priuilegio[.] Laus Deo[.]

Signatures: 2A⁸ sB² A-O⁸, as listed in register on leaf [10] verso.

"Woodcut title"--BM 15th cent.

"Tabula eclipsiu[m] luminariu[m] ini [i.e. in] annis hic notatis": leaves [117] verso-[119] recto.

Hain-Copinger, 13798*.

Proctor, 5641.

Goff R-110.

BM 15th cent., V, 578 (IA.24714).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ir00110000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2741-2742.

NUC pre-1956, NM 0857351.

Lalande, J. J. Le F. de. Bib. astronomique, p. 24.

Grässe, IV, p. 587.

Houzeau & Lancaster. Astronomie (1964 ed.), 14453.

Klebs, 839.01.

Oates, J. C. T. 15th cent. printed books, 2211.

Zinner, E. Regiomontanus, p. 365 (note 304).

Purchased for the Boston Medical Library through the William Norton Bullard Fund U. Saba 1940 Dec. 31 32798.

From the William Norton Bullard Collection.

Without rubrication. Old vellum, rebacked in paper. Imperfect: sheets N3-4 wanting, N1-2 duplicated.