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    "localId": "83103",
    "label": "Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.606.368A"
}

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    "id": "83103",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.606.368A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Colophon",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.606 contains 1 of 6 colophons in Arabic with the name of the scribe. The colophons are dated to show that the various poems of the Khamsah were not executed consecutively; dates as follows: 29 Dhu al-Hijjah 923 AH (fol. 32a); 7 Rabi' I 924 AH (fol. 113a); Safar 924 AH (fol. 169a); 6 Dhu al-Hijjah 923 AH (fol. 234a); 19 Muharram 924 AH (fol. 320a); 5 Muharram 924 AH (fol. 368a).",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "923-924 AH/AD 1517-1518",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.606.368A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.606.368a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.606.368a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 29.5,
            "height": 17
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 5/8 x W: 6 11/16 in. (29.5 x 17 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration] qad faragha min tahrīr hadhā al-kitāb al-mawsūm bi-Iqbāl nānah /1/ Iskandarī min musannafāt afdal al-shu'arā wa- /2/ afsah al-bulaghā wa-akmal al-hukamā Shaykh Nizāmī /3/ 'alá yad al-'abd al-faqīr Muhammad al-mashhūr /4/ bi-Mūsá al-Mudhahhib fī 5 /5/ Muharram sanat 924 /6/ m (= tamma) /7/",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7689",
        "5126"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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