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    "localId": "79994",
    "label": "Explicit Page with Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.591.78A"
}

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    "id": "79994",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.591.78A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Explicit Page with Colophon",
    "description": "The final page of Walters manuscript W.591 ends with the colophon written within a triangular form.",
    "provenance": "Izzat [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ex libiris (min kutub), seal erased on fol. 1a]; 'Abd al-Qadir [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ex libris, fol. 1a]; Muhammad Amin, Inspector of awqaf [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [bequest entry on behalf of Bashir Agha with seal and the shelfmark 419 on fol. 1a; bequest (waqf) seal of of Bashir Agha dated 1130 AH/AD 1717; the same seal is also present on fols. 2a, 35a, 52a, and 77b; the shelfmark 419 is also inscribed on the tail edge]; al-Hajj Bashir Agha Dar al-Sa'adah, 1130 AH/AD 1717, by bequest [ex libiris, dated 1158 AH/AD 1745 (plus his seal) on fol. 1a, middle of the page; the same seal is also on fols. 32b and 78a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "918 AH/AD 1512 (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.591.78A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.591.78a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 18,
            "height": 11.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 1/16 x W: 4 1/2 in. (18 x 11.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration] tamma wa-al-hamd li-Llāh awwalan wa--<ā>khiran wa-al-salāh wa-al-salām 'alá rasūlih Muhammad /1/ wa-ālih wa-sahbih bātinan wa-zāhiran 'alá anāmil afqar khalq Allāh wa-ahwajihim /2/ Muhammad ibn Pīr Ahmad al-shahīr bi-Arghūn al-Shīrāzī 'afá Allāh 'anhumā fī <ā>akhir Sha'bān /3/ li-sanat thamān 'ashar wa-tis'imi<'>ah al-hijrīyah bi-baldat [sic] /4/ al-tayyibah al-Būrsah hafizahā Allāh /5/ 'an al-<ā>fāt /6/ tamma /7/",
    "reign": "Sultan Selim I",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
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        "15718",
        "15718"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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