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{
    "localId": "77626",
    "label": "Illuminated Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.579.8B"
}

{
    "id": "77626",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.579.8B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Colophon",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.579 contains this illuminated colophon, written in Tawqi'/Riqa' script in gold ink, it is stated that Shaykh Kamal ibn \"Abd al-Haqq al-Sabzawari completed the manuscript at Astarabad in 941 AH/AD 1534.",
    "provenance": "Vizier al-Shahid 'Ali Pasha, ca. 1130 AH/AD 1717 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown] [waqf-seal impression of the Vizier dated 1130 AH/AD 1717 with the original shelf mark 1414 on fols. 2a, 2b, and 3a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "941 AH/AD 1534",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.579.8B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.579.8B_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.579.8B_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.579.8B_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.5,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/4 x W: 6 1/2 in. (23.5 x 16.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration]   tammat al-da'wāt al-mubārakāt /1/ bi-hamdi Allāhi ta'ālá wa-mannihi al-karīm /2/ 'alá al-yadi al-'abd al-mudhnib al-rājī ilá rahmati Allāh al-maliki /3/ al-rahīm al-bārī shaykh Kamāl ibn 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sabzawārī /4/ tajāwaza Allāhu 'an sayyi'atihimā bi-baldah tayyibah Ustarābād [sic] hummiyat /5/ 'an al-afāti wa-al-balīyāti fī shuhūr sanat ihdá wa-/6/ arba'īn wa-tis'imi'atin min al-hijrah muharriruhā wa-mudhahhibuhā wa-kātibuhā /7/",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15670",
        "15670",
        "16703"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.579.8B_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "133f1c422dbe3511"
}