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{
    "localId": "79634",
    "label": "Illuminated Explicit Page with Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.582.23A"
}

{
    "id": "79634",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.582.23A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Explicit Page with Colophon",
    "description": "This is the final illuminated page in the codex, Walters W.582. The last panel contains the colophon, written in Riqa' script, giving the name of the scribe as Habib Allah ibn Dust Muhammad al-Khwarizmi.",
    "provenance": "[Two erased large seals on folio 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "11th century AH/AD 17th century-12th century AH/AD 18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.582.23A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.582.23A_Fp_DD_TMS.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.582.23A_Fp_DD_TMS.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.582.23A_Fp_DD_TMS.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25.5,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 1/16 x W: 6 1/2 in. (25.5 x 16.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration]  mashaqahu al-'abd al-mudhnib/1/ al-rājī ilá rahmat rabbih al-ghanī /2/ Habīb Allāh ibn Dūst Muhammad /3/ al-Khwārizmī ghafara dhunūbahumā /4/ wa-satara 'uyūbahumā bi-hurmat al-nabī /5/ wa-<ā>lih wa-sahbih wa-sallama h (= intahá) /6/",
    "med": "ink and pigments on cream, glazed paper for main panel with multi-colored paper for inlaid margins",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16539",
        "16535"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL",
        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.582.23A_Fp_DD_TMS.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f5a9f8d70894ab0e"
}