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Surveying Instrument
Signed by Hieronimo de Antonio Buzzofo
Dated 1562; Italian
Wood; 180 mm in height

The instrument, which is probably incomplete, consists of a cylindrical piece of wood, with a lower part of smaller diameter, probably used as a handle. The upper part has two pairs of sighting slits and a brass band fixed around them engraved with the signature and the inscription 'SI DEVS EST PRO NOBIS QVIS CONTRA NOS [foliage] P<ER> ARTE RISMETTICA'.



British Museum, London
Registration no. MLA 1901, 7-20.1

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