Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date 1728/9 (A.H. 1141)
Maker Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Baṭṭuṭī
Place North Africa
Material Brass
Acquisition Presented by Lewis Evans in 1924
Accession 1924-0/2003

Provenance

Evans bought it in 1909, his records stating that he bought it 'from the executors of [blank]'. He had examined it in 1906, when it was in the possession of the Biblical scholar F. C. Burkitt, of Cambridge; Burkitt did not die until 1935, so perhaps he was handling it on behalf of an estate whose name Evans did not know.
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