Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date 1558
Maker Jacobus Valerius (?)
Place Zaragosa
Material Brass
Acquisition Presented by Lewis Evans in 1924
Accession 1924-0/2086

Provenance

Evans bought it from Percy Webster, his main London dealer, in 1914. The astrolabe, though Flemish in style, was evidently made either in or for use in Zaragosa.
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