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Geomantic Compass with Cover, Chinese, before 1654

Inventory Number 44055


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.44055

Subject
Compasses
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Bodleian Library in1952. Selden Collection, acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1659.
Other inscriptions
See accompanying Narrative file for inscriptions added during Bodleian Library cataloguing.
Object type
Compass
Dimensions
Diameter: 105mm
Inventory No
44055
Accession Number
1952-84

Description

Turned boxwood Chinese geomantic compass with separate lid. The edge of the lid is chipped and the compass glass is missing.