BIB_ID
80871
Accession number
MA 1064.3
Creator
Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601.
Display Date
1601 Jan. 28.
Credit line
Purchased, 1928.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 33.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to the Grand Duke Ferdinando.
Brahe's eldest son is traveling with Sir Anthony Sherley, Ambassador of Shah Abbas, King of Persia, who is paying a visit to the Grand Duke Ferdinand.
High reserve.
Brahe's eldest son is traveling with Sir Anthony Sherley, Ambassador of Shah Abbas, King of Persia, who is paying a visit to the Grand Duke Ferdinand.
High reserve.
Provenance
Purchased from G. Wells in 1928.
Summary
Recommending his eldest son Tycho to him who is traveling with Ambassador Scherlei [Anthony Sherley]; explaining that he has not sent his works on astronomy with him as they are not yet complete; saying he has moved to Prague from Denmark and brought his 28 astronomical instruments with him which have been set up in a large house beside the Garden of Caesar until they can be moved to a more suitable place; adding an additional recommendation of his son.
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