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<dl><dd>Added engraved title page in Turkish</dd>
<dd>Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initials</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
<dd>The plates are signed: Melchior Haffner sculpsit; the added engraved title page is signed: Jo: Henricus Schoenfeld delin: Jo: Georg Waldreich sculp:</dd>
<dd>Signatures: )(⁴(-)(4) 2)(⁴ A-T⁴ V²</dd>
<dd>Error in pagination: page 58 numbered 57</dd>
<dd>VD17</dd>
<dd>Binding: cloth over boards; half morocoo; gilt title on spine</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Leap year; Calendar; Astronomy, Arab; Calendar; Leap year</div>
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<dl><dd>Abū al-Wafāʼ al-Būzjānī, 940-998, author</dd>
<dd>Welsch, Georg Hieronymus, 1624-1677, writer of added commentary</dd>
<dd>Waldreich, Johann Georg, engraver</dd>
<dd>Hafner, Melchior, active 1660-1704, engraver</dd>
<dd>Goebel, Theophilus, printer</dd>
<dd>Schönfeld, Johann Heinrich, 1609-approximately 1682, printer</dd></dl></div>
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