- Subject
- Astrolabes
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Found in Museum store with other printing blocks from Oxford University Press for the works of R.T. Gunther.
- Primary inscriptions
- "Gunther" written on back in pencil.
- Object type
- Printing block
- Dimensions
- Height: 23mm Width: 236mm Depth: 132mm Weight: 831g
- Inventory No
- 18490
- Accession Number
- 2022-
Description
Copper plate, mounted on wooden block, with paper backing. The print is a combined image of the rete and plate of an Arsenius astrolabe, plate XCIV in Gunther's Astrolabes of the World.
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