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    "localId": "35005",
    "label": "Book on Horses",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.661"
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    "id": "35005",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Book on Horses",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.661 is an illustrated Ottoman copy of a Turkish work on the training and care of warhorses (Tuhfat ül-farisin fi ahval-i huyul il-mucahidin) by Ahmed 'Ata Tayyarzade (died 1294 AH/AD 1877). The text was written in Ruq`ah script by Saker Muhammed in 1271 AH/AD 1854-1855. The main text is preceded by a detailed table of contents (fols. 1b-3a), and on fol. 3b it states that the work was dedicated to Sultan Abdülmecid (reigned 1255 AH/AD 1839-1277 AH/AD 1861). There are 30 illustrations of horses at the end of the manuscript.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1271 AH/AD 1854-1855 (Ottoman)",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21.5,
            "height": 15.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 8 7/16 x W: 6 1/8 in. (21.5 x 15.5 cm)"
}

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    "reign": "Sultan Abdülmecid (1255 AH/AD 1839-1277 AH/AD 1861)",
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