Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Small image of astrolabe back with rules or alidades removed. Click to enlarge.
Date 1505/06 (A.H. 911)
Maker Muḥammad Ṣaffār
Place Persia
Material Brass
Inventory no. 51182
Acquisition Presented by J. A. Billmeir in 1957

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The back is inscribed:
Transcription Translation Notes Type
هذه الاصطرلاب العبد الفقير الى الله الغفار في سنة تسع ماية احدى عشر شمس الدين محمد صفار Of this astrolabe the servant in need of God the forgiving, Shams ad-Dīn Muḥammad Ṣaffār in the year nine hundred and eleven. Lower half of back Maker's signature
ظل الأصابع عمد ظل الأقدام مديد The shadow of the fingers is vertical / The shadow of the feet is extended. Upside down within the shadow square Scale label
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