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Name	King catalog	Collection & Inventory number
A single plate	154	Adler Planetarium
Sir John Findlay's 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe	193	Adler Planetarium
An astrolabe	2557	Adler Planetarium A84
Astrolabe	159	Adler Planetarium M-20
Astrolabe of Johannes Bos		Adler Planetarium M-33a
Astrolabe	154	Adler Planetarium M-36
Astrolabe	200, 295	Adler Planetarium M26
A 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe	199	Adler Planetarium M27
Astrolabe	150, 153	Adler Planetarium M35
Astrolabe: Eastern		Adler Planetarium N-69
A mater	2605	Adler Planetarium N-70
Planispheric astrolabe		Aga Khan Museum AKM611
Astrolabe	4035, 3568	Ahuan Gallery
A badly-corroded Abbasid (?) astrolabe	4020	Ahuan Gallery
Astrolabe	3532	Ahuan Gallery
A rete and set of plates	4154	Ahuan Gallery
An early copy	4027	Ahuan Gallery
Astrolabe	4153	Ahuan Gallery
A mater	3714	Andalusian Mosque
A replacement rete and plates	3533	Arab World Institute AI 86-14
Astrolabe	3539	Arab World Institute AI 86-17
Astrolabe Carolingien	3042	Arab World Institute AI 86-31
Planispheric astrolabe		Arab World Institute AI 86-45
A mater	1205	Arab World Institute AI.86-20
A mater	3534	Arab World Institute AI.86.14
Astrolabe	4029	Arab World Institute AI.86.15
A mater and plate	4206	Arab World Institute AI.86.16
Astrolabe	1115	Arab World Institute AI.86.18
Astrolabe		Art Institute of Chicago 1929.132
Astrolabe	4507	Bargello 1156 C
Astrolabe	1139	Bavarian National Museum 33/243
An early copy of a 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe	623, 3208	Bavarian National Museum 33/244
Astrolabe	249	Bavarian National Museum Phys. 90a.
A quintuply-universal astrolabe	140	Benaki Museum 13178
An astrolabe	116	Berlin State Library 2050
An astrolabic plate for multiple latitudes		Berlin State Library Sprenger 2049
A composite astrolabe with a European mater and a set of plates and rete from al-ʿIrāq or Iran	1072	Biblioteca comunale di Casa Professa
A ṣafīha	128	Bibliothèque nationale de France Ge A.408.
An astrolabe in the 'Fusoris' tradition	518	Bibliothèque nationale de France Ge.A.331
An astrolabe by Khalaf ibn al-Muʿādh illustrated in a Latin manuscript	4024	Bibliothèque nationale de France lat. 7412, fols. 19v-23v
Blakene Astrolabe	292	British Museum 1853,1104.1
Chaucer Astrolabe	291	British Museum 1909.6-17.1
An astrolabe for localities from Dover to Berwick	298	British Museum 1914,0219.1
An astrolabe for the seven climates	161	British Museum 1961.12-1.1
Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant		British Museum 2008,8017.1
Astrolabe	104	British Museum 55 7-9 1
A 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe	195	British Museum 57.5-23.1
Astrolabe	112	British Museum 64 12-21 1
An Italian astrolabe for the climates	167	British Museum 67.7-5.22
Astrolabe	105	British Museum 80 3-8 1
A ṣafīḥa shakkāziyya	106	British Museum 90 3-15 3
A compendium with an astrological plate	250	British Museum 94 6-15 1
Astrolabe	158	British Museum MLA 1893,0616,3
An unsigned, undated astrolabe with a rete in the early Andalusian 'Abbasid' style (and additional markings by a European)	110, 135	British Museum OA+371
The Great Sloane astrolabe		British Museum Sloane 54
An unsigned 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe with a single plate for latitude 34°	3081	Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Astrolabe		Collection of astronomical instruments at ETH Zürich KGS-236-a
An astrolabe with universal plates	545	Columbia University 27-256.
Astrolabe		Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers 03882-0001-
Rennerus Arsenius astrolabe-CnAM 3907		Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers 03907-0000-
Astrolabe by Jean Fusoris	3080	Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers 19544-0000-
An astrolabe with plates for tropical latitudes	516	Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers 3882/1
A mater and plates for the climates	589	Cusanusstift 3
Astrolabe	3595	Danish Museum of Art & Design 6/1972
Astrolabe	3595	Danish Museum of Art & Design D25/1986
A mater	1121	Dar Batha 20993
Astrolabe	2701	Dar Batha 714
Astrolabe	2710	Dar Batha 764
Astrolabe	4199	Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah LNS 34M
Planispheric astrolabe		Department of Decorative Arts of the Louvre OA 10675
Planispheric astrolabe		Department of Decorative Arts of the Louvre OA 11951
Astrolabe	4048	Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
Astrolabe of Erasmus Habermel		Deutsches Museum 1911/29028
An astrolabe with a prominent bowl-shaped frame on the rete	4525	Deutsches Museum 1991-232
A composite astrolabe with Hebrew inscriptions on the back of the mater	621, 621	Deutsches Museum 5178
Astrolabe	620	Deutsches Museum 70678
An astrolabe with an unusual rete	4502	Dr. Tullio Tomba Collection
An Italian astrolabe	3037	Dr. Tullio Tomba Collection
Astrolabe	4515	Dr. Tullio Tomba Collection
An astrolabe with plates for Paris, Cologne and London	4521	Dr. Tullio Tomba Collection
Astrolabe	1178	Federal Urdu University
Astrolabe	3613	Franklin Institute 4563
Astrolabe (forgery?)		Freer Gallery of Art F1942.8a-h
Astrolabe		Freer Gallery of Art F1945.6
Astrolabe	549	Germanisches Nationalmuseum WI 129
An astrolabe with a rete decorated with circus figures	137	Germanisches Nationalmuseum WI 20
An Italian astrolabe with zoomorphic representations on the throne and back	547	Germanisches Nationalmuseum WI 21
Astrolabe	558	Germanisches Nationalmuseum WI 282
An astrolabe	1099	Germanisches Nationalmuseum WI 353
A German astrolabic plate with a tulipshaped frame	550	Germanisches Nationalmuseum WI 5
An Italian astrolabe slightly modified by Henricus de Hollandia in Paris	548	Germanisches Nationalmuseum WI 6
A Low Countries (?) or German (?) astrolabe with a half quatrefoil on the solstitial bar of the rete	461	Ghent City Museum no. 455
Astrolabe	301	Gonville and Caius College
An astrolabe in the 'Fusoris' tradition	197	Gonville and Caius College A
Astrolabe	3673	Hermitage Museum VC940
Peter the Great's Astrolabe		Hermitage Museum ЭРТх-1262
Astrolabe	592	Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Kg. 25:15
A French astrolabe for Nevers	4524	Historical museum X 850
The rete on the first astrolabe of ʿAbd al-Karīm al- Miṣrī	7	History of Science Museum
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 14542
Quadratum or Astrolabe-Quadrant on a Square Board		History of Science Museum 14543
Single Plate Universal Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 14645
Astrolabe-Quadrant		History of Science Museum 15598
Lantern Slide Astrolabe Projection		History of Science Museum 21423
Pasteboard Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 25521
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 27191
The Oxford Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 27786
Astrolabe-Quadrant		History of Science Museum 29345
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 30402
Astrolabe Quadrant		History of Science Museum 31514
Universal Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 32378
Astrolabe-Quadrant		History of Science Museum 32534
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 33411
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 33474
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 33739
Astrolabe	3	History of Science Museum 33767
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 33796
Paper Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 34268
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 34314
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 34611
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 35082
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 35146
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 35313
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 35565
Astrolabe Clock		History of Science Museum 35592
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 36247
Gothic Astrolabe	2042	History of Science Museum 36338
Electrotype Facsimile of a Spanish Mariner's Astrolabe Probably from the Spanish Armada		History of Science Museum 36441
Astrolabe with Lunar Mansions	103	History of Science Museum 37148
Dodecagonal Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 37297
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 37321
Astrolabe	149	History of Science Museum 37527
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 37530
Hispano-Moorish Astrolabe	191	History of Science Museum 37878
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 37940
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 38097
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 38235
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 38642
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 38862
Astrolabe	108	History of Science Museum 39063
Astrolabe	192	History of Science Museum 39540
Fake? Astrolabe and Sundial		History of Science Museum 39887
Astrolabe	1222	History of Science Museum 39955
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 40330
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 40407
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 40443
Modern Plastic Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 40670
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 40744
Astrolabe	169	History of Science Museum 40829
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 40833
Fake? Persian Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 41106
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 41110
Astrolabe with Universal Projection	139, 139	History of Science Museum 41122
Astrolabe	30	History of Science Museum 41261
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 41409
The Oxford Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 41427
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 41460
Middle Gothic Astrolabe	168	History of Science Museum 41468
Astrolabe Plate		History of Science Museum 41524
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 41763
Fake? Astrological Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 41951
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 42223
Fake? Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 42437
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 42649
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 42680
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 42730
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 43148
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 43415
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 43454
Hispano-Moorish Astrolabe	166	History of Science Museum 43504
Astrolabe	28	History of Science Museum 43559
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 43704
Astrolabe	1001	History of Science Museum 43739
Astrolabe	129	History of Science Museum 44141
Geographical Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 44359
Paper Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 44745
Astrolabe and Astrological Volvelle	170	History of Science Museum 45127
Early Gothic Astrolabe Rete	294	History of Science Museum 45133
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 45220
Hispano-Moorish Astrolabe	2041	History of Science Museum 45307
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 45365
Astronomical Compendium		History of Science Museum 45366
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 45509
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 45581
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 45747
Astrolabe of Philis de Din		History of Science Museum 45975
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 46680
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 46681
Astrolabe Mater	248	History of Science Museum 46769
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 46836
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 46886
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 46935
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 47063
Astrolabe with Astronomical Volvelle		History of Science Museum 47367
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 47376
Gothic Astrolabe	2043	History of Science Museum 47615
Astrolabe	1026	History of Science Museum 47632
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 47657
Late Gothic Astrolabe	163	History of Science Museum 47674
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 47714
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 47792
The Painswick Astrolabe	299	History of Science Museum 47869
Gothic Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 47901
Astrolabe with Geared Calendar	5	History of Science Museum 48213
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 48380
Rete of a Syro-Egyptian Astrolabe	2529	History of Science Museum 48470
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 48701
Paper Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 48821
Astrolabe Mater		History of Science Museum 48892
Hispano-Moorish Astrolabe	300	History of Science Museum 49033
Paper Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 49296
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 49300
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 49359
Astrolabe	194	History of Science Museum 49636
Spherical Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 49687
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 49726
Astrolabe and Equatorium		History of Science Museum 49847
Astrolabe	107	History of Science Museum 49861
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 50059
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 50122
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 50143
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 50180
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 50257
Gothic Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 50769
Astrolabe with Universal Lamina	3579	History of Science Museum 50853
Astrolabe	130	History of Science Museum 50934
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 50987
Astrolabe	2505	History of Science Museum 51182
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 51459
Universal Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 51786
Linear Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 51934
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 52066
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 52209
Astrolabe Template		History of Science Museum 52332
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 52399
Astrolabe	2527	History of Science Museum 52473
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 52478
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 52528
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 52713
Gothic Astrolabe with Universal Projection and Toothed Rete	2044	History of Science Museum 52869
Geographical Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 53211
Astrolabe	2537, 2537	History of Science Museum 53307
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 53556
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 53558
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 53637
Astrolabe	196	History of Science Museum 53801
Geographical Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 53966
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 54063
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 54193
Mariner's Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 54253
Late Gothic Astrolabe	410	History of Science Museum 54330
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 54424
Modern Fake Persian-type Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 54545
Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 54607
Astrolabe Quadrant		History of Science Museum 54673
Printed Paper Astrolabe (Hand-Coloured)		History of Science Museum 54843
Astrolabe	118	History of Science Museum 55331
The Oxford Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 58805
The Oxford Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 75059
Horse for a Persian Astrolabe - Modern Replacement		History of Science Museum 85861
Astrolabe Plate		History of Science Museum 88453
Model of a Mariner's Astrolabe		History of Science Museum 88604
Manuscript Astrolabe	403	History of Science Museum 91897
Astrolabe		Houghton Library 32044096338637
Astrolabe	16	Indian Museum
Astrolabe with a 'counter-ecliptic' frame on the rete	1068	Instituto Valencia of Don Juan
An astrolabe reworked by a European with maker's name and date obliterated	1069	Instituto Valencia of Don Juan
An astrolabe	3501	Islamic Antiquities Museum of Kuwait LNS 36M
Astrolabe	3601	Israeli National Maritime Museum
Astrolabe	4156	Israeli National Maritime Museum
Astrolabe	4152	Israeli National Maritime Museum 4447 MM
Astrolabe	4508	Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam 002
Astrolabe	4053	Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam 1
Two replacement plates on an astrolabe	4050	Istanbul Naval Museum
An additional plate on an unsigned Maghribi astrolabe	4051	Istanbul Naval Museum
Astrolabe	4050	Istanbul Naval Museum 264
Astrolabe	4051	Istanbul Naval Museum 265
Astrolabe	3906	J. Kugel Gallery
A North Italian mater later fitted with a rete and plates	643	Jagiellonian University Museum
A 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe	568	Jagiellonian University Museum
An unsigned Andalusian astrolabe with later inscriptions in Catalan	3622	Jagiellonian University Museum 4037 - 35/V
An organum Ptolemei on the back of an astrolabic plate attached to an unsigned celestial sphere	4510	Jagiellonian University Museum 4039 - 37/V
Astrolabe	642	Jagiellonian University Museum 4040 - 38/V
A composite astrolabe with an earlier North Italian mater and a 'Regiomontanus-typeB' rete and plates	643	Jagiellonian University Museum 4042-40/V
An Italian mater, later fitted with a 'Regiomontanus-type-B' rete and plates and eventually owned by Ioannus Broscius	643	Jagiellonian University Museum 4042l
Astrolabe made for Ludolf de Scicte of Einbeck	2072	Jagiellonian University Museum 41/V
Astrolabe with equatorial ring on the rete	567	Jagiellonian University Museum 65/D
Mater	4115	Kandilli Observatory
A replacement rete and plate	4101	Kandilli Observatory 1
A mater and plates	4101	Kandilli Observatory 1
Astrolabe	4110	Kandilli Observatory 10
Astrolabe	4111	Kandilli Observatory 11
Astrolabe	4112	Kandilli Observatory 12
Astrolabe	4113	Kandilli Observatory 13
Astrolabe	4114	Kandilli Observatory 14
Astrolabe	4102	Kandilli Observatory 2
A replacement rete and two plates for an astrolabe	4104	Kandilli Observatory 4
Astrolabe	3705	Kandilli Observatory 5
Astrolabe	3712	Kandilli Observatory 7
Astrolabe	4108	Kandilli Observatory 8
Astrolabe	2709	Kasbah of the Udayas
Astrolabe	609	Lüneburger Museum
Astrolabe	142	Maps and Plans Department of the BnF
undated astrolabe by Aḥmad ibn Khalaf	99	Maps and Plans Department of the BnF GE A 324
Astrolabe for latitudes from 42° to 49° North		Maps and Plans Department of the BnF GE A-331
Astrolabe		Maritime Museum S.1565
The mater and plates of a 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe	3084	Maritime Museum of Barcelona 237
An English mater with plates for the climates	303	Merton College
Astrolabic plate	297	Merton College
Astrolabe of ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari	109, 109	Metropolitan Museum of Art 91.1.535
Astrolabe of ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari	109, 109	Metropolitan Museum of Art 91.1.535a–h
Astrolabe		Milwaukee Art Museum M1991.100
An astrolabe in the 'Fusoris' tradition	4528	Museo Civico dell’Età Cristiana 11 S.S.
Astrolabe	2	Museo Civico dell’Età Cristiana 36
Astrolabe of Thomas Gemini		Museo Galileo 1093
Astrolabe of Charles Whitwell		Museo Galileo 1095
An unsigned astrolabe dated 1483, fitted with an organum Ptolemei and an eclipse calculator	492	Museo Galileo 1096
An astrolabe	122	Museo Galileo 1105
An Italian astrolabe with two short upper bars	479	Museo Galileo 1106
Astrolabe	493	Museo Galileo 1107
Astrolabe	1077	Museo Galileo 1109
Astrolabe with a shakkāziyya grid on the back	1078	Museo Galileo 1112
An unsigned undated Abbasid astrolabe with later additions by a European ('Astrolabe of Pope Sylvester II')	101	Museo Galileo 1113
Astrolabe	1066	Museo Naval de Madrid 1503
Astrolabe	3552	Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte 4991
Astrolabe	3551	Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte 4994
A rete and a plate	3901	Museo Storico Navale 2094
Astrolabe with inscriptions in Gothic and Arabic		Museum Aan de Stroom AS.1943.009.127
Astrolabe	534	Museum Boerhaave 10421 (=A72)
Astrolabe	536	Museum Boerhaave MBL 3102
Astrolabe	536	Museum Boerhaave V03102
An astrolabe with an equatorial ring on the rete	3053	Museum of Fine Arts 88.654
Planispheric astrolabe		Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon 1966-1
A replacement rete and plates for the Cairo astrolabe of Ḥāmid ibn ʿAlī	3713	Museum of Islamic Art
Astrolabe		Museum of Islamic Art
An undated mater (with various Mamluk Egyptian additions)	1130	Museum of Islamic Art 15351
A mater with an illegible date with a replacement rete and plates	3713	Museum of Islamic Art 15352
A somewhat degenerate, unfinished, unsigned, undated [late Mamluk], shakkāziyya plate bearing an invocation to the saint Sayyid ʿAbd al-Qādir alKīlānī	4165	Museum of Islamic Art 15358
Astrolabe	12	Museum of Islamic Art 15360
Astrolabe	1131	Museum of Islamic Art 15362
An unsigned undated Mamluk astrolabe	4164	Museum of Islamic Art 15368
Astrolabe	1148	Museum of Islamic Art 15371
Astrolabe	1136	Museum of Islamic Art 4295
An anomalous late-15th-century German astrolabe exhibiting French influence	601	Museum of Köln city L 181
Byzantine markings on an Abbasid plate	109	Museum of Modern Art
Astrolabe	457	Museum of Walloon Life
Astrolabe	1064	Museum of Walloon Life 37
An astrolabe	121	Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel A38
A 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe without an upper frame on the rete	598	Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel A39
Astrolabe	1090	Musée Paul-Dupuy 18.088
Astrolabe	4046	Musée d'Art et d'Histoire
A mater	4041	Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève 1051
Astrolabe-MHS 1711		Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève MHS 1711
Planispheric astrolabe		Musée du quai Branly 74.1963.6.1
Astrolabe	4045	Musée ducal de Bouillon
Astrolabe	530	Musée historique de Strasbourg IL 74
Astrolabe	1067	National Archaeological Museum of Spain
Astrolabe	117	National Archaeological Museum of Spain
Astrolabe of al-Sahlî		National Archaeological Museum of Spain 50762
A fake Astrolabe	1033	National Maritime Museum 36-13.A8
A French astrolabe for the upper climates	420	National Maritime Museum 39.693.A43
A fake Astrolabe	1030	National Maritime Museum A.6-26.ii
Astrolabe	1031	National Maritime Museum A.6-26.ii
Astrolabe	1040	National Maritime Museum A15/36-15C
Astrolabe	1042	National Maritime Museum A17-36.17
A Catalan astrolabe with a V-shaped frame on the rete	416	National Maritime Museum A21/NA36-21c
An unusual astrolabic plate	4133	National Maritime Museum A26/NA36-8C
The 'Thornoe' astrolabe	337	National Maritime Museum A34/36-28C
The 'Thornoe' astrolabe	337	National Maritime Museum A34/NA38-1661C
Astrolabe	428	National Maritime Museum A39/NA38-1661C
Astrolabe	430	National Maritime Museum A41/39-784C
Astrolabe	431	National Maritime Museum A43/NA39-693c
A French astrolabe with an additional plate for England	3058	National Maritime Museum A60/NA66-12.
Astrolabe		National Maritime Museum AST0548
Composite astrolabe		National Maritime Museum AST0554
Astrolabe		National Maritime Museum AST0566
An astrolabe with a simplified 'Regiomontanus-type-A'	4501	National Museum Kraków XIII/753.
Astrolabe	4043	National Museum in Damascus 15228
Astrolabe	2571	National Museum of American History
A single plate	2572	National Museum of American History
Astrolabe	57	National Museum of American History
A rete	2572	National Museum of American History
Mariner's Astrolabe (replica)		National Museum of American History 14.2012.52
Parts of an astrolabe, with a replacement rete bearing Hebrew inscriptions	2572	National Museum of American History 318178
An English zoomorphic astrolabe	2006	National Museum of American History 318198
A mater and plates	4001	National Museum of American History 330779
Persian Planispheric Astrolabe		National Museum of American History CCA40
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316750
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316751
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316752
Astrolabe	3643	National Museum of American History MA.316753
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316754
Astrolabe	70	National Museum of American History MA.316755
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316756
Astrolabe	186	National Museum of American History MA.316757
Parnel's astrolabe	304	National Museum of American History MA.316758
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316759
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316760
Persian Planispheric Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316761
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316762
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316763
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316764
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316765
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316766
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316767
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316768
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.316769
Astrolabe	2567	National Museum of American History MA.316770
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.333586
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.333587
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.333588
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.333589
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.333590
Mariner's Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.333939
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.336112
Astrolabe	15	National Museum of American History MA.336113
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.336114
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.336115
Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.336116
Hartman's Planispheric Astrolabe		National Museum of American History MA.336117
Astrolabe	1211	National Museum of Iran 148
A late (Ottoman ?) astrolabe	3702	National Museum of Iraq 9723
A replacement rete from Iraq or Iran	3650	National Museum of Scotland
The 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe of Robert Gordon of Straloch	3082	National Museum of Scotland T.1947.27
A mater and plates (with a later Eastern Islamic rete)	3650	National Museum of Scotland T1959-62
Astrolabe	645	National Palace Museum of Korea
An unsigned 15th-century (?) Dutch astrolabe in imitation of the style of the Nuremberg astrolabe 'signed' by Henricus de Hollandia	566	National Technical Museum 2287
Astrolabe with a ṣafīḥa shakkāziyya on the back	4044	National Watch and Clock Museum 1935
A 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe with rete and plates reworked by an Egyptian or a Syrian in the 19th (?) century	460	Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum A.S. 43.9.127
A late, undigned Egyptian astrolabe	1065	Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum A.S. 54.11.36.
A 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe	4527	Nordic Museum
Astrolabe	124	Observatory of Strasbourg D53a
Astrolabic plate	296	Oriel College
Astrolabe	3203	Palazzo Madama 3401/922B.
Astrolabe	6	Paris Observatory
An unsigned, undated astrolabe with an unusual rete	3096	Peabody Essex Museum M 10977
An unsigned, undated astrological plate for latitude [unknown] and an equatorium	4511	Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
An early Italian astrolabe with a bowlshaped frame	4554	Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
An unsigned Italian astrolabe with a thistleshaped frame on the rete	4557	Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Astrolabe		Pinacoteca Ambrosiana TOMBA FIGS 1/2.
Astrolabic clock	4042	Quaraouyine Mosque
Astrolabe	136	Real Academia de la Historia
Astrolabe	132	Real Academia de la Historia
Astrolabe with a shakkāziyya -type projection for latitude 30°	134	Red Fort Archaeological Museum
A late-13th-century unsigned Andalusian / Maghribi astrolabe - 'The Imola astrolabe'		Rome Observatory
Astrolabe	123	Rome Observatory 157/688
A ṣafīḥa zarqālliyya	1071	Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona
Astrolabe	476	Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona
An Italian astrolabe	503	Royal Geographical Society
A mater and plates	1063	Royal Museums of Art and History D. 250
An astrolabe with a replacement quatrefoil rete	627	Salzburg Museum K430/49
Astrolabe	293	Science Museum
A replacement rete and plate for an unsigned Abbasid astrolabe	4022	Science Museum
European astrolabe		Science Museum 1878-11
European astrolabe, 1548		Science Museum 1880-25
European astrolabe, 1320-1330		Science Museum 1880-26
Planispheric astrolabe		Science Museum 1880-27
European astrolabe, 1295-1305	198	Science Museum 1880-32
European astrolabe, 1425-1435	247	Science Museum 1880-49
European astrolabe, 1570		Science Museum 1938-425
Islamic astrolabe, 1645-1655		Science Museum 1938-427
European astrolabe, 1495-1505	107	Science Museum 1938-428
European astrolabe, 1645-1655	1057	Science Museum 1951-287
'Oxford' Astrolabe with celluloid rete designed by Professor Jenkin 1925		Science Museum 1952-152
Islamic astrolabe, 1145-1155		Science Museum 1952-225
Islamic astrolabe, 1605-1606		Science Museum 1952-226
European astrolabe,1650		Science Museum 1952-444
Astrolabe	1059	Science Museum 1952.226
Islamic astrolabe, 1601-1699		Science Museum 1963-264
Hindu astrolabe		Science Museum 1980-1191
Islamic astrolabe	4022	Science Museum 1981-1380
Islamic astrolabe, 1849		Science Museum 1982-777
Hindu astrolabe commissioned at Jaipur		Science Museum 1983-1492
Star and sundial, Dutch, 1681		Science Museum 1984-675
Islamic astrolabe		Science Museum 1985-2077/1
Islamic astrolabe, 1701-1800		Science Museum 1986-1190
Hindu astrolabe		Science Museum 1987-541
Hindu astrolabe, 1800-1899		Science Museum 1990-605
Planispheric astrolabe, 1572		Science Museum A629481
Astrolabe		Skokloster Castle 10552
A Catalan astrolabe with a rectangular frame inside the ecliptic on the rete	162	Society of Antiquaries of London Cat. 559
Astrolabe	151	Società Ligure di Storia Patria
Astrolabe	625	St Peter's Archabbey
Astrolabe	626	St Peter's Archabbey
Astrolabe	1100	Technisches Museum Wien 15144
An additional plate on the astrolabe of Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar al-Naqqāsh	4036	Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
An astrolabe with Arabic and Coptic inscriptions	4036	Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
Astrolabe	1177	Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum T2952
A mater and plates	1168	Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum T2953
Astrolabe	4151	Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum T2970
A single plate	4151	Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum T2970
Astrolabe	4052	Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum T2971
Astrolabe	4546	Tyrolean State Museum 2957
Parts of an astrolabe illustrated in a 16th-century Italian drawing	4030	Uffizi
An Italian astrolabe with a pair of crossed sabre-shaped star-pointers on the rete	2062	University History Museum, University of Pavia
Northern astrolabe		University of Strasbourg IM67014719
Moroccan astrolabe		University of Strasbourg IM67014720
A ṣafīḥa zarqālliyya	102	Victoria and Albert Museum 504,1888
An astrolabic plate	190	Victoria and Albert Museum M.128-1923
The rete on the astrolabe of al-Ḥusayn ibn	1204	Whipple Museum of the History of Science
An astrolabe plate	1204	Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Astrolabe	1188	Whipple Museum of the History of Science
A late Italian astrolabe with a bowl-shaped upper frame on the rete	576	Whipple Museum of the History of Science 1263
Astrolabe	1204	Whipple Museum of the History of Science 1759
Astrolabe	1186	Whipple Museum of the History of Science 1760
Astrolabe	407	Whipple Museum of the History of Science 999
An Franco-Italian astrolabe	4522	private collection
Astrolabe	4166	private collection
Astrolabe	4132	private collection
Astrolabe	580	private collection
Astrolabe	4034	private collection
A ghost astrolabe	3114	private collection
A mater and plates	4054	private collection
An astrolabe	4	private collection
Astrolabe	2708	private collection
Astrolabe	4047	private collection
Astrolabe	144	private collection
A mater	4033	private collection
Astrolabe	4518	private collection
Astrolabe	546	private collection
The Berselius astrolabe	202	private collection
The back of a 14th-century 'cosmopolitan' astrolabe	4520	private collection
Astrolabe	4523	private collection
A 'cosmopolitan' Italian astrolabe with a replacement plate from a Byzantine astrolabe and additional markings in Hebrew	4509	private collection
A Maghribi astrolabe with Arabic inscriptions	1122	private collection
Astrolabe	452	private collection
An astrolabe	111	private collection
A simplified 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe	4526	private collection
A rete and rim with throne	4148	private collection
A single plate from a Byzantine astrolabe	4509	private collection
Astrolabe	3660	private collection
An unusual astrolabic plate	4150	private collection
A mater and rete and some plates to accommodate a set of 11th-century Andalusian plates	4040	private collection
Some 11th-century Andalusian plates (in a composite Ottoman astrolabe)	4040	private collection
An unfinished rete	4149	private collection
An unsigned astrolabe with later additions on the blank side of the plate of the organum	256	private collection
Astrolabe	4125	private collection
Astrolabe	1122	private collection
Astrolabe	1218	private collection
Astrolabe	1203	private collection 114
A solitary Abbasid plate with ogival markings	4021	private collection 7/1983
Imitation 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe	4529	present collection unknown
An astrolabe by (or for) Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad	3922	present collection unknown
A Franco-Italian astrolabe for the climates	4512	present collection unknown
An undated astrolabe	4180	present collection unknown
An undated ṣafīḥa zarqālliyya	4026	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	4506	present collection unknown
The astrolabic part of a zīj al-ṣafā'iḥ	3633	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	4516	present collection unknown
A North Italian astrolabic plate with a single trefoil on the rete	4555	present collection unknown
A universal astrolabe in the tradition of ʿAlī ibn Khalaf dated 584 H mentioned in a medieval manuscript	4039	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	633	present collection unknown
A ṣafīḥa shakkāziyya	4028	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	4167	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	539	present collection unknown
A 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe	4550	present collection unknown
Some European plates in the astrolabe of al-Sahl al-Nisaburi	4533	present collection unknown
A French or English astrolabe with halfquatrefoils on the supports of the equatorial bar	4517	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	4540	present collection unknown
An astrolabe with a latitude grid around the ecliptic on the rete and zodiacal figures on the back	213	present collection unknown
An owner's mark in Hebrew script	293	present collection unknown
A simplified 'Fusoris-type' astrolabe	193B	present collection unknown
Sir John Findlay's astrolabe	238	present collection unknown
A debased trefoil Gothic astrolabe	573	present collection unknown
A rete from a universal astrolabe	4200	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	604	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	125	present collection unknown
A mater	100	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	376	present collection unknown
An incompetently-made astrolabe in the al-Kirmānī tradition	3628	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	4181	present collection unknown
Prof. Wilson's astrolabe	67	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	4131	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	3543	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	4182	present collection unknown
An mater and rete	4182	present collection unknown
A mater	127	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	1147	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	3699	present collection unknown
An undated mater with a replacement Maghribi rete	1179	present collection unknown
Marcel's Egyptian astrolabe	1160	present collection unknown
Dr. Knuthsen's astrolabe	3640	present collection unknown
Astrolabe (Persian)	1105	present collection unknown
A replacement rete for an Abbasid astrolabe	1179	present collection unknown
An astrolabe of the 'Fusoris-type' reworked by a Syrian or Egyptian in the 19th century	460	present collection unknown
Dorn's Aleppo astrolabe	126	present collection unknown
An undated astrolabe	1079	present collection unknown
An isolated plate	4025	present collection unknown
A rete and plate	4031	present collection unknown
An astrolabe with a rectangular frame inside the ecliptic on the rete	3915	present collection unknown
An unsigned mater from a standard astrolabe	4037	present collection unknown
A ṣafīḥa	1081	present collection unknown
Astrolabe	148	present collection unknown
A Mater	540	present collection unknown
Astrolabe with unfinished rete	4551	present collection unknown
Astrolabe with a rete	1061	present collection unknown
Hebrew markings on Arabic plates in a composite astrolabe	1072	present collection unknown
A solitary plate	4025	present collection unknown
Two plates on an astrolabe	144	present collection unknown
An astrolabe signed by Ioannus (Regiomontanus) and dedicated to Cardinal Bessarion	640	present collection unknown
A French Astrolabe		present collection unknown
A mater with a universal projection and constellation figures on the front and an albion on the back		present collection unknown
An astrolabe with a 'broken' half quatrefoil		present collection unknown
An astrolabe made of wood		present collection unknown
A fake Astrolabe		present collection unknown
Three replacement plates for an astrolabe of al-Sarrāj		present collection unknown