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    "localId": "28534",
    "label": "The Orchard (Bustan)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.620"
}

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    "id": "28534",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.620",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Orchard (Bustan)",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.620 is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the Bustan (The garden or The orchard), composed by Sa'di (died 691 AH/AD 1292). It was written in black Nasta'liq script in the 9th century AH/AD 16th in Iran. The codex opens with a frontispiece with the title Kitab-i bustan inscribed in an illuminated medallion (fol. 1a), followed by a double-page illustration of a banquet scene in a landscape (fols. 1b-2a). Additionally, there are 5 paintings illustrating the text (fols. 25a, 55b, 58a, 93b, and 119b). The brown leather, blind-stamped binding decorated with a central oval and pendants is not contemporary with the manuscript.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "9th century AH/AD 15th century (Safavid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.620",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.620_TopExt_DD_UBO.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.620_TopExt_DD_UBO.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25.5,
            "height": 17
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 10 1/16 x  W: 6 11/16 in. (25.5 x 17.0 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "RelatedObjects": [
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        "81901",
        "81900",
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        "81898",
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        "81895",
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        "81891",
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    ],
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper covered with brown leather",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15724"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3171"
    ]
}

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