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An Ottoman Quadrant signed Muhammad Bursawi
Turkey, dated AH 1247/AD 1831-32

8 October 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,500 inc. premium

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An Ottoman Quadrant signed Muhammad Bursawi
Turkey, dated AH 1247/AD 1831-32

lacquered wood with lines, scales and occasional captions in black and red ink, ornamented with gilt decoration, with plumb line and sliding bead and bob
12 x 11 cm.

Footnotes

Muhammad Bursawi is listed in Boris Rosenfeld, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7th - 19th c.), Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA), Istanbul, 2003, no. 919.

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