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Source Description
This folio from Walters manuscript W.630 contains a colophon in Arabic and Persian giving the name of the scribe and the date of copying.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
81213
label
Colophon
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
81213
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Colophon
description
This folio from Walters manuscript W.630 contains a colophon in Arabic and Persian giving the name of the scribe and the date of copying.
provenance
Sultan 'Uthman Khan (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [erased waqf seal and statement signed by [Ibrahim] Hanif, inspector of awqaf and the shelfmarks 3815 and 3795 (crossed out) on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
966 AH/AD 1559 (Safavid)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
illuminated manuscripts
folios (leaves)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
26
height
15.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 10 1/4 x W: 6 1/8 in. (26 x 15.5 cm)
Source extras
cul
Islamic
inscriptions
[Transliteration] tammat al-kitāb bi-'awn Allāh al-Malik al-Wahhāb dar tarīkh 18 /1/ shahr Sha'bān al-Mu'azzzam sanah 966 'alá yad al-faqīr al-haqīr ad'af /2/ 'ibād [A]llāh ilá rahmat Allāh 'Alī Qulī bn Qadr bn Nūr... (?) Barrāk (?) /3/ gharīq-i rahmat-i kasī bād kih kātib rā bih al-hamdī kunad yād /4/ tammat /5/ alif (=Allāh) mīm (=Muhammad) /6/ 'ayn (='Alī) /7/
dynasty
Safavid Dynasty
med
ink and pigments on cream-colored laid paper
creator_ids
15730
15731
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MSS
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MIS
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none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
17ab8e2ae26fe2b7