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    "localId": "80048",
    "label": "Illuminated Colophon to the Collection of Poems (masnavi)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.625.311A"
}

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    "id": "80048",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.625.311A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Colophon to the Collection of Poems (masnavi)",
    "description": "According to this colophon written in Arabic from Walters manuscript W.625, the manuscript was completed in 865 AH/AD 1461 by Ahmad ibn Hajji Abi Bakr al-Katib. It reads as follows: tamma al-kitabu al-Mathnawi al-ma'nawi al-mawlawi wa-al-hamd li-Llah ta'alá wa-husn tawfiqih /1/ wa-al-salh wa-al-salam wa-la-tahiyah wa-al-ikramu 'alá khayr khalqih Muhammad wa-alih wa-sahbih /2/ ajma'in al-tayyibin al-tahirin wa-sallama tasliman /3/ 'alá yad ad'af 'ibad Allah ta'alá /4/ wa-ahwajihim ilá 'afwih wa-ghufranih /5/ Ahmad ibn Hajji Abi Bakr al-Katib 'afa Allah /6/ 'anhuma fi hijjah [sic] khams wa-sittin wa-thamanimi'ah /7/ Allahumma ighfir li-sahibih wa-li-katibih /8/ wa-li-qari'ih wa-li-jami' al-mu'minin /9/ wa-al-mu'minat /10/ m [=tamma] /11/.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "865 AH/AD 1461",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.625.311A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.625.311A_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.625.311A_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.5,
            "height": 16
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 5/8 x W: 6 5/16 in. (24.5 x 16 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic; Persian",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration]  tamma al-kitābu al-Mathnawī al-ma'nawī al-mawlawī wa-al-hamd li-Llāh ta'ālá wa-husn tawfīqih /1/ wa-al-sal<ā>h wa-al-salām wa-la-tahīyah wa-al-ikrāmu 'alá khayr khalqih Muhammad wa-ālih wa-sahbih /2/ ajma'īn al-tayyibīn al-tāhirīn wa-sallama taslīman /3/ 'alá yad ad'af 'ibād Allāh ta'ālá /4/ wa-ahwajihim ilá 'afwih wa-ghufrānih /5/ Ahmad ibn Hājjī Abī Bakr al-Kātib 'afā Allāh /6/ 'anhumā fī hijjah [sic] khams wa-sittīn wa-thamānimi'ah /7/ Allahumma ighfir li-sāhibih wa-li-kātibih /8/ wa-li-qāri'ih wa-li-jamī' al-mu'minīn /9/ wa-al-mu'mināt /10/ m [=tamma] /11/",
    "med": "ink and pigments on buff-colored laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15728",
        "15727"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.625.311A_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "mediaId": "486f325eac09964b"
}