Breuis ac perutilis co[m]pilatio Alfragani astronomo[rum] peritissimi totu[m] id continens quod ad rudimenta astronomica est opportunum
Publisher: arte [et] impensa Andree galli ...
Published: 1493
Place of publication: Impressum Ferrarie
Language: lat
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Arab Astronomy; Medieval Astronomy
Other titles: Brevis ac perutilis compilatio Alfragani astronomorum peritissimi
Work titles: Compilatio astronomica
Notes: Signatures: a-c⁸, d⁶.

Contains an account of the Arabic and Latin months; the sphere of the heavens with earth as its center point; movement of the spheres of fixed stars and planets; habitable quarters of the earth and their characteristics; length of night and day; orbits of planets and distances from earth; longitudinal motion of sun, moon and planets; latitudinal movement, number and size of stars; rising and setting of stars, planets and moon; eclipses of sun and moon.

In the 1142 Latin translation of Johannes Hispalensis.

Hain, 822,

GW, 1268

BMC, VI.605

Proctor, 5753

Goff, A-460

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2770-2772

From the William Norton Bullard Collection.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication; woodcut uncolored.