Accession No

0227

Brief Description

unfinished single-plate astrological astrolabe / lunar calendar, with alidade, French, 3/4 16th century

Origin

France

Maker

Accession No

0602

Brief Description

Astrolabe, “The Oxford Astrolabe”, by Watson & Sons, English, 1925

Origin

London, England

Maker

Watson & Sons, Ltd

Accession No

0239

Brief Description

brass planispheric astrolabe, Islamic, 1821

Origin

Persia (Islamic) [Iran, attributed]

Maker

Accession No

1147

Brief Description

imitation planispheric astrolabe, signed by Muhammad Khazin, Persian, dated 1710 but part or whole instrument likely 19th-century

Origin

Persia (Islamic) [Iran]

Maker

Khazin, Muhammad

Accession No

0737

Brief Description

brass planispheric astrolabe, Persian, mid-18th Century

Origin

Persia (Islamic) [Iran]

Maker

Accession No

1759

Brief Description

Islamic planispheric astrolabe of the 14th century, North African, by Husain b. Ali, 1309 / 1310

Origin

North Africa [attributed]; Moorish Islamic

Maker

Husain b. Ali

Accession No

1264

Brief Description

planispheric astrolabe, English [attributed], 14th century

Origin

[England]

Maker

Accession No

1760

Brief Description

Islamic astrolabe, by Shams-al-Din Muhammad Saffar, Persian, 882 AH [1477/78 CE]

Origin

Persia (Islamic) [Iran]

Maker

Shams-al-Din Muhammad Saffar

Accession No

1001

Brief Description

planispheric astrolabe with one plate engraved as celestial, made for Muhammad Bakir Isfahani, by Muhammad Mahdi al-Khadim, Persian, 1070 AH, 1659 AD

Origin

Persia (Islamic) [Iran]

Maker

Mahdi al-Khadim, Muhammad [maker] Bakir Isfahani, Muhammad [constructed for]

Accession No

1144

Brief Description

imitation astrolabe, possibly Indo-Persian, mid-19th Century or early 20th Century

Origin

India (?); Indo-Persian (?) (Islamic?)

Maker