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Source Description
This page from Walters manuscript W.561 shows five lines of vocalized Muhaqqaq script in black ink.
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Document identity
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79960
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Text Page from Chapter 2
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object
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79960
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normalized
title
Text Page from Chapter 2
description
This page from Walters manuscript W.561 shows five lines of vocalized Muhaqqaq script in black ink.
provenance
Mamluk Amir Aytimish (Aytmish) [al-Bajasi] (died 802 AH/AD 1400), Cairo [date of acquisition unknown], by commission; Library of the Madrasah [later known as al-Madrasah al-Aytimishiyah], Bab al-Wazir, Cairo [date of acquistion unknown], by bequest [bequest (waqf) statement in the name of the Mamluk Amir Aytimish on folio 3a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
4th quarter 8th century AH/AD 14th century (Mamluk)
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CC0
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en
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illuminated manuscripts
folios (leaves)
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1
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1
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cm
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37
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26.5
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H: 14 9/16 x W: 10 7/16 in. (37 x 26.5 cm)
Source extras
cul
Islamic
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Mamluk Dynasty
med
ink and pigments on Arab paper with chain lines grouped in threes
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6182
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none
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1
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0
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photo
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