Commentarius in Ruzname Naurus, sive, Tabulae aequinoctiales novi Persarum & Turcarum anni
By: . Nunc primum editae è bibliotheca Georgii Hieronymi Velschii cujus accedit dissertatio, de earundem usu
Contributors: Welsch, Georg Hieronymus, 1624-1677, writer of added commentary; Waldreich, Johann Georg, engraver; Hafner, Melchior, active 1660-1704, engraver; Goebel, Theophilus, printer; Schönfeld, Johann Heinrich, 1609-approximately 1682, printer
Published: 1676
Language: lat
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Leap year; Arab Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Calendar
Other titles: Ruzname Naurus; Tabulae aequinoctiales novi Persarum & Turcarum anni
Notes: Added engraved title page in Turkish.

Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initials.

First facsimile reproduction of a oriental manuscript with engraved plates showing a Persian perpetual calendar and Arabian astronomy. The manuscript is now attributed to Abū al-Wafāʼ al-Būzjānī. Cf. Babinger.

The plates are signed: Melchior Haffner sculpsit; the added engraved title page is signed: Jo: Henricus Schoenfeld delin: Jo: Georg Waldreich sculp:.

Signatures: )(⁴(-)(4) 2)(⁴ A-T⁴ V².

Error in pagination: page 58 numbered 57.

VD17 39:124599N

In Latin, with quotes in Turkish, Greek and Hebrew.

Binding: cloth over boards; half morocoo; gilt title on spine