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    "localId": "11494",
    "label": "Prayer Book",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.578"
}

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    "id": "11494",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.578",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Prayer Book",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.578 is an illuminated manuscript of the well-known prayer called Hizb al-bahr (Litany of the sea) by Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili (died 656 AH/AD 1258), the founder of the Shadhiliyah sufi order. It was copied in the 11th century AH/AD 17th in Ottoman Turkey. The text, on gold-sprinkled paper with tan tinted margins, is written in a variety of large-size scripts, including Thuluth, Muhaqqaq, Rayhan, and Tawqi', vocalized in black and blue. Illuminated rosettes with colored dots serve as verse markers.There is a bequest (waqf) statement (fol. 2a) in the name of Sultan 'Uthman Khan III (reigned 1168-1171 AH/AD 1754-1757), signed by Ibrahim Hanif, inspector of awqaf. The illuminated finispiece (fol. 7b) is inscribed with the basmalah and hamdalah in white Thuluth script in horizontal panels that frame a central lozenge containing Qur'anic verses in green and black Square Kufic. The binding of gold-sprinkled pink paper over pasteboard with central lobed gold-tooled medallion dates to the late 11th century AH/AD 17th or the 12th century AH/AD 18th. The fact that the flap is on the wrong side suggests that the manuscript may have been rebound at a later stage.",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman Khan III, son of Mustafa II (reigned 1168-1171 AH/AD 1754-1757) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [waqf entry in the name of the Sultan signed by Ibrahim Hanif, inspector of awqaf on fol. 2a and seals of the Sultan and the inspector erased]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "11th century AH/AD 17th century (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.578",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31.5,
            "height": 21.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 12 3/8 x W: 8 7/16 in. (31.5 x 21.5 cm)"
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    "med": "ink and pigments on gold-sprinkled paper and tan tinted paper bound between pasteboard covered with gold-sprinkled pink paper with gold-tooled goatskin",
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