Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date ca. 1800
Maker Shaykh Sakkūt
Place Turkey
Material Wood
Acquisition Purchased from the Hotel Drouot, Paris, in 1992
Accession 1992-24

Provenance

The Museum bought it with grants from the PRISM Fund and the Scientific Instrument Research Fund. It was lot 126 in the auction sale conducted by Ader Tajan on 2 June 1992.
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