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    "localId": "33834",
    "label": "Two Works on Precious Stones",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.589"
}

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    "id": "33834",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.589",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Two Works on Precious Stones",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.589 is a codex containing 2 short works on precious stones ascribed to Jamal al-Din al-Tifashi and Aristotle. The piece attributed to Aristotle is likely to be a paraphrase or extract from that author's Liber mineralium (or Lapidarius). This anonymous Ottoman copy was penned in 989 AH/AD 1581, possibly in Syria.",
    "provenance": "Grand Vizier 'Ali Pasha (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [erased waqf seal with shelf mark 1830 or 8830 on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "989 AH/AD 1581 (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.589",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.5,
            "height": 14.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 9 1/4 x W: 5 11/16 in. (23.5 x 14.5 cm)"
}

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    "dynasty": "Ottoman Dynasty",
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    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper covered with red goatskin with brown goatskin and gold doublures",
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