Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date 1789/90 (A.H. 1204)
Maker Sayyid ’Abd al-Baqi
Place Persia (?)
Material Brass
Acquisition Presented by J. A. Billmeir in 1957
Accession 1957-84/12

Provenance

Billmeir acquired it with the collection of Henri Michel, of Brussels, which he purchased about 1950.
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