Note 338 — JULNAR THE SEA-BORN AND HER SON KING BADR BASIM OF PERSIA.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Here the Shaykh is mistaken: he should have said, “The Sun in old Persian.” “Almanac” simply makes nonsense of the Arabian Circe’s name. In Arab. it is “Takwím,” whence the Span. and Port. “Tacuino:” in Heb. Hakamathá-Takunah = sapientia dispositionis astrorum (Asiat. Research. iii. 120).