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    "localId": "81213",
    "label": "Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.630.187A"
}

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    "id": "81213",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.630.187A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Colophon",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.630 contains a colophon in Arabic and Persian giving the name of the scribe and the date of copying.",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman Khan (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [erased waqf seal and statement signed by [Ibrahim] Hanif, inspector of awqaf and the shelfmarks 3815 and 3795 (crossed out) on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "966 AH/AD 1559 (Safavid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.630.187A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.630.187a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.630.187a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.630.187a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26,
            "height": 15.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 1/4 x W: 6 1/8 in. (26 x 15.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration]  tammat al-kitāb bi-'awn Allāh al-Malik al-Wahhāb dar tarīkh 18 /1/ shahr Sha'bān al-Mu'azzzam sanah 966 'alá yad al-faqīr al-haqīr ad'af /2/ 'ibād [A]llāh ilá rahmat Allāh 'Alī Qulī bn Qadr bn Nūr... (?) Barrāk (?) /3/ gharīq-i rahmat-i kasī bād kih kātib rā bih al-hamdī kunad yād /4/ tammat /5/ alif (=Allāh) mīm (=Muhammad) /6/ 'ayn (='Alī) /7/",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on cream-colored laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15730",
        "15731"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.630.187a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "17ab8e2ae26fe2b7"
}