Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449.
Tabvlae long ac lat. stellarum fixarvm, ex observatione Ulugh
Beighi ... Ex tribus invicem collatis MSS. Persicis jam primium luce
ac latio donavit, & commentariis illustravit, Thomas Hyde ... In
calce libri accesserunt Mohammedis Tizini tabulae declinationum &
rectarum ascensionum. Additur demum elenchus nominum stellarum.
Oxonii, Typis H. Hall; sumptibus authoris; venales prostant apud R. Davis, 1665.
The Islamic world carried out the most important astronomical research of the Middle Ages. One of the leading Islamic astronomers, Ulug Beg, was also the governor of Samarkand in Central Asia. As a result, he had the resources to produce, in about 1420, the most important star catalog of the era, recording the positions of 1000 stars. Unlike later star catalogs, all the observations to create this catalog were made by naked eye observations.
This work is written in Latin and Arabic with the Arabic text on the left hand page and Latin on the right.