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{
    "localId": "81126",
    "label": "Colophon in Gold Tawqi‘ Script",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.581.27A"
}

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    "id": "81126",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.581.27A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Colophon in Gold Tawqi‘ Script",
    "description": "While the texts of Walters manuscript W.581are written in Thuluth and Naskh scripts, the scribe used Tawqi\" script to write the colophon, as was common in the Islamic manuscript tradition.The scribe signs himself as Ridwan ibn Muhammad al-Tabizi and indicates that the manuscript was copied in 767 AH/AD 1366.",
    "provenance": "Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library, Konya, Turkey (?), 767 AH/AD 1366 [mode of acquisition unknown] [bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-'Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah… (fol.1a)]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "767 AH/AD 1366",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.581.27A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.581.27A_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.581.27A_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.581.27A_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27,
            "height": 18
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 5/8 x W: 7 1/16 in. (27 x 18 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration] katabahā al-faqīru ilá Allāhi al-ghanī /1/ Ridwānu ibn Muhammadin al-Tabrīzīyu fī /2/ Jumādá al-ākhir min sanati sab'in wa-sittīna /3/ wa-sab'imi'atin hāmidan li-Llāh ta'ālá /4/ 'alá ni'amih al-sābighah wa-musalliyan /5/ 'alá nabīyih Muhammadin wa-ālihi wa-sahbihi musalliman /6/",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper with chain lines grouped in twos",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16854",
        "16853",
        "16535"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.581.27A_Fp_DD.jpg",
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