a. Also 4–5 tolletane, tollitane. [ad. L. Tolētān-us, f. Tolētum Toledo.] Pertaining to Toledo; in Toletan tables, ‘the astronomical tables composed by order of Alphonso X., king of Castile (1252–82), from their being adapted to the city of Toledo’ (Tyrwhitt in note to the passage in Chaucer); also called ALPHONSINE tables.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Frankl. T., 545. Hise tables tolletanes [Harl. tollitanes] forth he brought Ful wel corrected.
1894. Skeat, Chaucer’s Wks., V. 394 (Notes Cant. T.). The longitude of a planet at a given date is the ‘root’; and its longitude … twenty-three years later can be obtained from the Toletan tables by adding (1) its change of longitude in twenty years,… and (2) its further change in three years.
