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    "localId": "11787",
    "label": "Selection of Poems",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.641"
}

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    "id": "11787",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.641",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Selection of Poems",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.641 is an illuminated Timurid copy of a selection of poems by Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman Jami (died 898 AH/AD 1492). The colophon indicates that it was copied in Herat (present-day Afghanistan) by Sultan 'Ali in 899 AH/AD 1493-1494 (fol. 70b). The manuscript opens with an illuminated incipit with an inscribed headpiece. The black leather binding, which is original to the manuscript, has a stamped central lobed oval, pendants, and cornerpieces, which are all covered with cloudband motifs.The doublures of red leather with similar design are decorated with filigree work on a blue ground. There is an erased bequest (waqf) seal and registration statement, probably belonging to the Sultan 'Uthman (reigned 1027-1031 AH/AD 1618-1622) (fol. 1a).",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman (reigned 1027 AH/AD 1618-1031 AH/AD 1622) (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [erased waqf-seal and waqf-registration statement probably belonging to the Sultan on folio 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "899 AH/AD 1493-1494 (Timurid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.641",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17,
            "height": 11.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 6 11/16 x W: 4 1/2 in. (17 x 11.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic; Persian",
    "dynasty": "Timurid Dynasty",
    "RelatedObjects": [
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        "82840",
        "80129",
        "80051"
    ],
    "med": "ink and pigments on thick, well-polished, off-white paper covered with black leather; red doublures with blue, marbled paper",
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        "15674"
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        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2730"
    ]
}

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