Date |
1542 |
Maker |
Georg Hartmann |
Place |
Nuremberg |
Material |
Wood |
Acquisition |
Presented by Lewis Evans in
1924 |
Accession |
1924-0/2024 |
Provenance
Evans bought it from Guggenheim, a dealer
in Venice, in 1895. An early or perhaps the original owner
was Leonardo Botallo (1530-1587), an Italian physician and
anatomist, whose patrons included Catherine de' Medici and
king Charles IX of France; he published a number of medical
works in the 1560s and 1570s. He has written in ink around
the edge 'leonardi a bottalis a[s]tensis'. He was a native of
Asti, in northern Italy, and if the astrolabe belonged to him
as a student he could well have been its original owner.