Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date 984/5 or 1003/4 (A.H. 374 or 394)
Maker Aḥmad and Muḥammad
Place Iṣfahān
Material Brass
Acquisition Presented by Lewis Evans in 1924
Accession 1924-0/2000+

Provenance

Evans bought it from Professor Y. Daweed, per the London dealer Percy Webster, in 1919 (paying £250, the highest amount that he ever paid for an astrolabe).
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