Date |
1527 |
Maker |
Georg Hartmann |
Place |
Nuremberg |
Material |
Brass |
Acquisition |
Lent by St John's College,
Oxford, in 1924 |
Accession |
1924-33 |
Provenance
The blackened condition of the outer
surfaces, in common with other instruments from St John's
College, arises from localised atmospheric pollution, perhaps
from being stored or displayed in a gas-lit room. It was
presented to St John's, probably in 1634, by William Laud,
Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of Oxford University,
whose arms impaled by those of Canterbury are engraved on the
back; Laud had been a student, fellow, and President of St
John's College. His other astrolabe, which he gave to the
Bodleian Library, is also in the Museum's collection
(inventory no. 47063).