De kalendario et cyclo Caesaris ac de paschali canone S. Hippolyti martyris
Subtitle: dissertationes duae ad SS. D. nostrum Clementem XI. pont. max. quibus inseritur descriptio, & explanatio basis, in Campo Martio nuper detectae sub columna Antonino Pio olim dicata : his accessit enarratio per epistolam ad amicum, De nummo et gnomone Clementino
By: auctore Francisco Blanchino Veronensi, Basilicae S. Laurentii in Damaso de urbe canonico, S.D.N. ab honore Sac. Cubiculi, & à secretis Sac. Congreg. kalendarii
Contributors: Schoel, Hendrick van, -1622, engraver; Westerhout, Arnold van, 1651-1725, engraver; Bianchini, Francesco, 1662-1729
Published: 1703
Language: lat
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: S. Maria degli Angeli (Church : Rome, Italy); Julian Calendar; Ancient Medals; Sundials; Calendars; Early works to 1800; Gregorian Calendar; Observations; Astronomy; History
Notes: Signatures: *¹⁰ a-o⁶ p⁴ [maltese cross]⁴ A-G⁶ [sec.]⁶ ²A-D⁸ E⁴ F⁸ ²[sec.]⁴.

Errata: page 84 (fourth series); page 12 (fifth series).

The second part, De nummo et gnomone Clementino, concerns the meridian line designed by Bianchini and installed in the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli (Rome) by commission of Pope Clement XI.

Plates (part 1): facing page 5 ,1 hand colored engraved plate depicting the kalendario Caesaris, signed "Henricus Van Schoel excudit"; facing page 42, 2 unsigned engraved plates labeled "Tabula I-II", depicting coins and medals; facing page 72, 2 engraved plates "Roma sedens apotheosim decernit Antonio Pio ...", signed "Arnoldus van Westerhout fecit" and "Discursio militaris equitum ac peditum Romanorum ...", unsigned; facing page 88, engraved plate labeled "Tabula III", unsigned, depicting a bust of Trajan surrounded by coins; facing page 92, 3 letterpress tables printed on 2 leaves (1 large folding, 1 double tipped in at centerfold with a headnote reading "Post pag. 92").

Plates (part 2): facing page [8], 2 engraved plates, unsigned, "Prospectus utriusque gnomonis meridiani, et polaris" and "Figur[ae] spectantes ad dissertationem de Nummo et gnomone Clementino."

Plates "Solution problematis paschalis": 5 engraved and 1 letterpress tables facing page lxxxiij, all of them duplicated at the end after the index.

Bound with this item is Bianchini's "Solutio problematis paschalis": [12], lxxxviij pages at end before the index.

Includes index.

Engraved title vignette of a medal to commemorate the visit of Pope Clement XI to see the sun cross the almost completed meridian line in the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

Sun in the church, 1999, page 153 and 307

Binding: vellum; ink title on spine; bookplate of Biblioteca Riccardi in Modena on front free endpaper.
Table of contents: title: Dissertatio prima de kalendario et cyclo Caesaris ([20], 176 pages); title: De nummo et gnomone Clementino ([8], 84 pages); title: Solutio problematis paschalis ([12], lxxxviij pages).