Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date ca. 1370
Place England (?)
Material Brass
Acquisition Presented by the Misses M. E. and L. C. Hyett and by The Friends of the Old Ashmolean in 1955
Accession 1955-35

Provenance

'The Painswick Astrolabe' was purchased by the Museum 'at a nominal price', chiefly contributed by the Museum's Friends organisation. It had belonged to Sir Francis A. Hyett (1844-1941), of Painswick House, Gloucestershire.
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