Commentarius in Ruzname Naurus, sive, Tabulae aequinoctiales novi Persarum & Turcarum anni

Abū al-Wafāʼ al-Būzjānī, 940-998, author, 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 · 1676 · Augustae Vindelicorum : Impensis Theophili Goebelij, typis Joannis Schönigkij · 11 pictures

A 1676 Latin commentary printed at Augsburg by Theophil Goebel and Johann Schönigk on the Persian Nowruz calendar, the Ruzname Naurus, with added explanations by Georg Hieronymus Welsch for scholars of astronomy and chronology. Its pictures are engraved pages of tables: framed grids of numerals set between Arabic and Persian script columns, with a floral border of stacked circles and rosettes that a designer could take as a dense, repeating ornamental frame.

Leap year · Calendar · Astronomy, Arab

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