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    "localId": "15458",
    "label": "Amplified Poem in Honor of the Prophet Muhammad",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.581"
}

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    "id": "15458",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.581",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Amplified Poem in Honor of the Prophet Muhammad",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.581 is a copy of the poem in honor of the Prophet Muhammad known as Qasidat al-burdah (The poem of the mantle) by Sharaf al-Din Muhammad al-Busiri (died 694 AH/AD 1294), with an amplification (takhmis) by Nasir al-Din Muhammad al-Fayyumi. The amplification and the text of the Qasidat al-burdah were written in Naskh and Thuluth scripts respectively by Ridwan ibn Muhammad al-Tabizi in 767 AH/AD 1366, probably for the Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library in Konya, Turkey.",
    "provenance": "Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library, Konya, Turkey (?), 767 AH/AD 1366 [mode of acquisition unknown] [bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-'Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah… (fol.1a)]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "767 AH/AD 1366",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.581",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.581.binding_ClsdTop_DD_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.581.binding_ClsdTop_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27,
            "height": 18
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 10 5/8 x W: 7 1/16 in. (27 x 18 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
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        "81126",
        "80125",
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        "80028"
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    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper with chain lines grouped in twos covered in brownish-red leather",
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}

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