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    "localId": "30971",
    "label": "Collection of Prayers for the Prophet Muhammad",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.583"
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    "id": "30971",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Collection of Prayers for the Prophet Muhammad",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.583 is an illuminated copy of the collection of prayers for the Prophet Muhammad entitled Dala'il al-khayrat, composed by Muhammad al-Jazuli (died 877 AH/AD 1472). The text was written in black Naskh script in the 11th century AH/AD 17th in Ottoman Turkey. It contains two facing illustrations (fols. 15b-16a) featuring the mosque compound in Medina with the tombs of Muhammad, Abu Bakr, and 'Umar. The reddish-brown goatskin binding is decorated with a central lobed medallion and four corner compartments with arabesque designs on a gold ground and decorative frames.",
    "provenance": "Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [book plate: no. 1155 LG]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase [from Leon Gruel]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "11th century AH/AD 17th century (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.583",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19,
            "height": 12
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 7 1/2 x W: 4 3/4 in. (19 x 12 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Ottoman Dynasty",
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    "med": "ink and pigments on laid European paper covered with reddish-brown goatskin with gold",
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