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{
    "localId": "81185",
    "label": "Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.617.406A"
}

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    "id": "81185",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.617.406A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Colophon",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.617 contains a colophon witten in Arabic in red Nasta'liq. The colophon gives the place and the date of copying.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "934 AH/AD 1527 (Safavid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.617.406A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.617.406a_Fp_DD_Colophon.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.617.406a_Fp_DD_Colophon.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25,
            "height": 15.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 13/16 x W: 6 1/8 in. (25 x 15.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration]  qad waqa'a al-farāgh min tahrīrih wa- /1/ tastīrih b-'awn Allāh al-malik /2/ al-'azīz al-'alīm wa-husn tawfīqih /3/ fī yawm al-thulathā ghurrat Rabī al-awwal /4/ sanat arba' wa-thalathīn wa-tis'imi<'>ah al-hijrīyah /5/ al-nabawīyah al-mustafawīyah hāmidan li-Llāh wa-musalliyan /6 / wa-musalliman 'alá Sayyid al-'ālimīn wa-qablahu /7/ al-'āshiqīn wa-al-'ārifīn Muhammad al-mustafá /8 / al-amīn wa-ālih wa-ahibbā'ih wa-atbā'ih ajma'īn /9/ al-tayyibīn al-tāhirīn fī al-buq'ah /10 / al-rafī'ah al-rūzbihānīyah qaddasa /11 /sirr sākinihā min a'ālī biqā' al-Shīrāz harasahu Allāh min jamī' al-āfāt /12/ wa-al-'āhāt wa-al-balīyāt /13/",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on cream-colored laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15724"
    ],
    "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.617.406a_Fp_DD_Colophon.jpg",
    "mediaId": "555adfb8bbd759d5"
}