translated from German by H. Frommert

                                                      Difference                  Location
No                      Magnitude    RA      Dec      in RA     in Dec  Distance  of the
                                       d  m   d  m        s        s        s     smaller
                                                                     
 1  Andromeda           both 9th       8 38  29 45 N     45       24       46     S.W.
 2  Androm.             both 9th      13 13  20 18 N     15       29       32     S.E.
 3  Zeta Psc            6.and 7th     15 33   6 25 N     22        9       24     N.E.
 4  at Mu Psc           both 7th      19 24   5  0 N      0        4        4     S.
 5  Gamma Ari           both 5th      25 22  18 13 N      3       12       12     S.W.
                                                                             
 6  Lambda Ari          5.and 8th     26 25  22 31 N     30       27       38     N.E.
 7  Gamma And           2.and 6th     27 36  41 16 N     14        6       12     N.E.
 8  Alpha Ari           2.and 9th     28 40  22 24 N      0        2        2     S.
 9  30 Ari              6.and 7th     36  3  23 41 N     45        4       41     N.W.
10  Cetus               6.and 7th     32 42   9 38 S     22        3       21     S.E.
                                                                             
11  Taurus              both 9th      49 30  26 56 N     30        0       27     E.
12  Tau Tau             4.and 9th     67 14  22 31 N     33       52       60     S.W.
13  Taurus              7.a.telesc.   71 35  14 12 N     37       24       42     N.W.
14  Orion               4.9.a.10th    79 36   2 43 S  15 a. 30    21    26 a. 37  N.E.
15  Delta Ori           2.and 8th     80 10   0 29 S      0       50       50     N.E.
                                                                  
16  at Zeta Ori         both 10th     82 23   2  2 S     15        0       15     E.
17  Gemini              5 a.telesc.   93 56  22 17 N     60       47       72     N.W.
18  Or. (11 Mon)        5.and 6th     94 32   6 52 S      6        7        9     N.W.
19  30 Gem              7.and 9th     94 51  17 56 N     12       19       22     S.W.
20  Gemini              both 8th      95 11  22 17 N     45       22       47     N.E.
                                                                  
21  Castor              2.and 9th    110  7  32 22 N     10        4        9     N.W.
22  Zeta Cnc            7.and 8th    119 52  18 19 N      0        8        8     S.
23  2. Phi Cnc          both 8th     123 21  27 39 N      7        6        8     S.E.
24  Cancer              dark [faint] 123 23  25 15 N     ..       ..       ..     N.E.
25  Iota Cnc            5.a. 10th    128 19  29 34 N     30       19       31     N.W.
                                                                  
26  at Pi Cnc           9. and 12th  135  3  15 53 N     ..        6       ..     N.E.
27  at Pi Cnc           10.and 12th  135 40  15 52 N     ..       ..       ..     S.E.
28  54 Leo              4.and 7th    160 53  25 56 N      7        2        6     S.E.
29  at Tau Leo No. 83   6 and 8th    168 53   4 13 N     22       18       28     N.E.
30  Tau Leo             4 and 9th    169  8   4  7 N     15       37       40     S.E.
                                                                             
31  a Hya               both 7th     170 23  27 59 S     10       10       13     S.E.
32  Coma Berenices                   182 24  28 18 N  acc. to Mr. Darquier a double star
33  Gamma Vir           both 5th     187 37   0 13 S      7        6        9     S.E.
    12 CVn (d.Heart                   
34   of Charles II)     3.and 7th    191 25  39 32 N     21       15       22     S.W.
35  54 Vir              both 7th     195 26  17 36 S     22        1.5     21     S.W.
36  Virgo               8.and 10th   195 51  10  9 S     30        7       30     N.E.
                                      
37  Zeta UMa (*)        3.and 5th    198 45  56  5 N     ..       ..       20     S.E.
38  Pi Boo              5.and 8th    217 35  17 24 N      7        2        7     S.E.
39  Beta Sco            2.and 7th    238  9  19  9 S     10       12       15     S.E.
40  Nu Sco              3.and 7th    239 48  18 50 S     18       38       42     N.W.
41  12. m Her           6.and 8th    247 22   4 41 N     52       47       69     S.W.
                                      
42  A Oph               7.and 8th    255 23  26 15 S      0       13       13     S.
43  Alpha Her           3.and 7th    256  9  14 40 N      8        4        9     S.E.
44  39 Oph              6.and 9th    256 10  23 58 S      0       14       14     S.
45  71 Her              5.and 8th    257 57  24 45 N      1        2        2     E.
46  Rho Her             5.and 7th    259  0  37 22 N      9        3        8     N.W.
                                      
47  61 Oph              both 7th     263 21   2 43 N     19        4       19     S.E.
48  b Sgr                 is double according to Bradley.
49  at Oph.             7.and 8th    267 17  19 21 N      1       ..       ..     E.
50  Her (pres. No. 95)  both 6th     268  3  21 37 N      9        1        9     S.W.
51  p Oph               5.and 7th    268 40   2 35 N      7        1        7     S.
                                      
52  Hercules            both 8th     270  0  26  6 N      0       17       17     S.
53  Serpens             both 7th     271  5   3  2 S     ..       ..       ..     E.
54  Sagittarius         8.and 10th   271 27  18 39 S     10       ..       ..     N.E.
55  Ophiuchus           both 9th     275  2   1  8 S      0        2        2     N.
56  Zeta Lyr            5. and 7th   279 17  37 23 N     30       38       45     S.E.
                                      
57  Epsilon Lyr         6.and 8th    279 13  39 27 N      3        3        4     N.E.
58  5. Lyr              both 6th     279 13  39 24 N      0        2        2     E.
59  Beta Lyr            3.and 9th    280 28  33  4 N     30       41       48     S.E.
60  Theta Ser           5.and 7th    281 18   3 55 N     22        7       23     S.E.
61  Eta Lyr             6.a.telesc.  286 32  38 47 N     30        0       26     E.
                                      
62  Beta Cyg            3.and 7th    290 27  27 31 N     31       20       34     N.E.
63  at Gamma Cyg        both 9th     303 35  38 33 N      0        7        7     S.
64  Alpha Cap           7.and 8th    304 17  19 15 S     24       12       25     S.W.
65  Delphinus           both 9th     305 10  10 39 N     15        3       15     S.E.
66  above Beta Del      9.a.telesc.  396 49  13 59 N     28       10       29     S.W.
                                      
67  Gamma Del           4.and 6th    309  4  15 21 N     18        2       17     N.W.
68  at Equuleus         6.and 9th    312  0   4 29 N     13        3       13     N.E.
69  Cygnus              8.and 9th    314  1  34 34 N     15        9       15     S.E.
70  Cygnus              5.and 7th    314 29  37 41 N     15       10       16     N.E.
71  Cygnus              both 9th     315  4  37 51 N      0        6        6     S.
                                      
72  Mu Cyg              4.and 8th    323 31  27 46 N     12        4       11     S.E.
73  Aquarius            8.and 10th   326 44   4 55 N     15        4       16     N.E.
74  Zeta Aqr            both 6th     334 19   1  8 S      3        3        4     S.W.
75  Aquarius            10.and 12th  345 10  10  6 S      0       26       26     S.
76  Aquarius            both 7th     348  3   9 39 S     22        3       21     S.E.
                                      
77  Pisces              both 8th     349 35   4  3 N     ..       ..       ..     S.
78  Andromeda           6.and 9th    356 43  30 31 N     ..       ..       ..     ..
79  Omega Psc           4.and 9th    357  0   5 39 N      0        2        2     N,
80  Andromeda           both 6th     357 13  32 30 N      0        4        4     S.

[Note: I added the running number column, "No", which is not included in the published list.]

[Bode's explanation follows:]
Almost all of the double stars listed in the present table have been first observed by the Mr. Hofastronomus [Court Astronomus] Mayer, at the Churfürstlich Observatory in Mannheim, with an 8-feet Birdian mural quadrant. Previously, some double stars had been noted by Cassini, Flamsteed, Bradley and Tob. Mayer, among them Gamma Ari, Gamma Vir, Alpha Gem, Theta Ser, A Oph, a Hya, Zeta Cnc, Omicron Cap as the most wellknown; alone, Mr. Mayer has looked for stars of this kind with particularly hard effort and discovered many previously unknown. Doubled Stars is a name for those stars which show up to the naked eye as single stars, but in telescopes of lower or higher magnification, often only very perfect instruments, appear composed either of two equally large [bright] or unequally large stars, which are separated by only a few seconds. In the previous table, the right ascension and declination of the double stars is given for the years of observation 1777 or 1778 after Mr. Mayer or Flamstead [sic], and should only serve for finding them. I [Bode] have calculated the apparent separation in the 7th column from the difference in right ascension and declination. In the last column it is indicated to which direction the smaller [fainter] star is situated from the larger [brighter] one.

S.E. means South East, i.e. left hand, down.
N.E. means North East, i.e. left hand, up.
S.W. means South West, i.e. right hand, down.
N.W. means North West, i.e. right hand, up.

The more acurate observations of the double stars could, over the time, serve excellently for discovering the proper motion of the fixed stars, because by this one can, practically by eyesight, deduce that one ot the other star has moved away from its place, as soon as the separation has changed for a few seconds. Actually, Mr. Mayer has already done various remarkable observations pointing to this. (*) But astronomers would longly have proceeded further in this knowledge, and would have occasion to even more secure conclusions, if there would have been more double stars noted in Flamstead's and other old star catalogs, and if one could rely on the places of fixed stars they give up to single seconds [of arc]. But now, as one has formerly not paid sufficient attention to the double stars, it results also for Flamstead's catalogue that the right ascensions and declinations of stars are only acurate to about 10 or at best 5 seconds from his obserrvations.