Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date ca. 1370
Place England (?)
Material Brass
Acquisition Presented by A. E. Gunther in 1986
Accession 1940-6/part

Provenance

The Gunther Collection, initially deposited on loan in 1940 by the executors of R. T. Gunther (1869-1940), the Museum's founding Curator, was a very miscellaneous collection, and contained four astrolabes (one of them added later). Unfortunately Gunther does not record how he acquired this astrolabe. It is not included in his book The Astrolabes of the World (1932).
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