Identity area
Reference code
WAR/05/011
Title
Cracow: photographs of fifteenth-century sundials and celestial globes from the Jagiellonian University Museum, Cracow, and the Science Museum, London
Date(s)
- 1971–1976 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 folder of loose photographs and papers
Context area
Name of creator
(1905–1990)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
13 b/w photographs, captioned. Also includes original exhibition captions for Martin Bylica's torquetum and Hans Dorn's celestial globe; Dr Ward's article on "The Earliest String-Gnomon Sundials" (reprint from Antiquarian Horology June 1976), and correspondence with Bayeriches Nationalmuseum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Innsbruck, and H. von Bertele. Typescript, printed and handwritten.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
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Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Mostly English, some German