Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date 1224/5 (A.H. 621)
Maker Muḥammad ibn Fattūḥ al-Khamā’irī
Place Seville
Material Brass
Acquisition Presented by Lewis Evans in 1924
Accession 1924-0/2008

Provenance

Evans bought it from his friend and collaborator E. B. Knobel in 1911. Knobel had bought it from a 'small second-hand furniture shop' in Edinburgh in 1876, where it was said to have come from the sale of a Colonel North.
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