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    "localId": "81414",
    "label": "Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.643.55A"
}

{
    "id": "81414",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.643.55A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Colophon",
    "description": "This colophon from Walters manuscript W.643 explains the nature of the work and gives the name of the calligrapher and the date of copying as Rajab 999 AH/AD 1591.",
    "provenance": "Alllah Muhammad 'Ali, 1030 AH/AD 1620-1621 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Round seal in the center of fol. 1a]; Unknown owner, 22 Jum. II 1105 AH/AD 1694 [mode of acquisition unknown] [a note on fol. 1a]; Mahmud, 1115 AH/AD 1703-1704 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Square seal with name Mahmud (partially erased) and an inscription with the date on fol. 1a]; Husayn Shah Ghulami, Dhu al-Qa'dah 1127 AH/AD 1715 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Octagonal seal with name underneath an inscription giving the date on fol. 1a]; Husayn Qavam (?), Daftar, 1301 AH/AD 1883-1884 [mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership statement on fol. 2a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "999 AH/AD 1591 (Safavid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.643.55A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.643.55a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.643.55a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.643.55a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.5,
            "height": 13
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 7/8 x W: 5 1/8 in. (22.5 x 13.0 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration]  tammat hadhā [sic] al-risālah al-sharīfa[h] /1/ mushtamal [sic] 'alá nikāt latīfah /2/ fī tafsīr abyāt ma'nawīyah 'alá /3/ al-sadr al-Mathawī al-Ma'nawī /4/ qaddasa sirruhu al-'azīz Jalāl /5/ al-Dīn Muhammad al-Rūmī 'alayhi /6/ al-rahmah wa-al-ghufrān /7/ 'alá yad al-kātib al-faqīr Bābā Sāh bn Sultān /8/ 'Alī Isfahānī /8/ fī shahr Rajab al-murajjab /9/ sanat tis' wa-tis'īn wa-tis'imi<'>ah /10/ al-hijrīyah al-nabawīyah /11/",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on rose-tinted, laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15674",
        "18550"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL",
        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.643.55a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "11d8a7a4ffc20b73"
}