Tabʹulæ Toletaʹnæ
. The astronomical tables composed by order of Alphonso X. of Castile, in the middle of the thirteenth century, were so called because they were adapted to the city of Toleʹdo.
“His Tables Tolletanes forth he brought,
Ful wel corrected, ne ther lakked nought.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.