Accession No

1713

Brief Description

horizontal inclining string-style dial, made by Ulrich Schniep, 1575 - 1576

Origin

München (Munich); Germany

Maker

Schniep. Ulrich

Class

dials

Earliest Date

1575

Latest Date

1576

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); glass

Dimensions

breadth 47mm; height 65mm

Special Collection

Holden-White collection

Provenance

On loan from The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Donated by Charles Holden-White to the Fitzwilliam Museum. Holden-White collection no. 1935-67.

Inscription

‘*V*S*’

Description Notes

Gilt brass with suspension ring and tablet clasp.
Leaf 1a: marked ‘INVENIENDA QUANT:
DIEI ET NOCTIS’ with calendar scale by month by 10 days to 2 days; surmounted by a volvelle with 2 windows for 5 circles of calibrations ‘INDEX AD/ DIEM MEN/ SIS AD./ MOVEA/ IVR.’ for five latitudes ‘52, 50, 48, 45, 42’; each window marked ‘ORTVS/ SOLIS’ and ‘OCCASVS SOLIS’.
Leaf 1b; ‘Tabula latitudinis Regionuum’ (see file).
Leaf 2a: horizontal dial, 3-12-9 by 1 to 30’ the string style (not extant) supported from a folding gallows formed of 2 dolphins with levelling bob turning over scale of latitude 42-52o by 2, the whole dial plate hinged so as to be adjustable in inclination, dated ‘1575’; inset compass; N/S line; calibrated beneath dial plate 90 -(0) -90 - (0) by 10 to 2o; ‘GRADVS DECLINAT: MANGNETIS/A. LINEA MERIDIEI’; the dial off set 6oW.
Leaf 2b: engraved female figure holding sword and severed head, with tree and tent (Judith with the head of Holophernes).

Condition: good (string missing).

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