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Description: | This unusual instrument gives the time in Italian hours. The inscribed date 1586 was added several decades later in a different hand. The hour scale is marked only faintly in ink and has been partly rubbed away. The back of the instrument has a short explanation of the nocturnal's use.
Technical details:
Nocturnal for use with pointers of the Great Bear. Shaped handle with pivoted suspension piece.
Obverse: Pointer arm pivoted to the centre of the main disc.
Reverse: Unequal date scale divided anticlockwisw to named month, subdivided to one day. Month arcs most widely spaced for Jan & Feb, and shortest for Aug & Sept. Pointer has straight edge and two stars marked along it.
Reverse: Rotatable ring around circumference held by three brass lugs. Italian hours marked very faintly in ink on ring around inside edge. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | nocturnals | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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