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{
    "localId": "82638",
    "label": "Colophon with Later Notations",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.590.147A"
}

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    "id": "82638",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.590.147A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Colophon with Later Notations",
    "description": "The colophon on this page from Walters manuscript W.590 gives the name of the scribe as 'Ali ibn Muhibb 'Ali and the date of copying as 1083 AH/AD 1673. Later notations were written by Muhammad al-Atrabazundi in Makkah (Mecca) in the month of Sha'ban in the year 1166 AH/AD 1752.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad Afandi Tarabizani [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [see fol. 2a]; Ahmad ibn 'Abd Allah al-Kadharuni [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [see fol. 2a]; Isma'il al-Sayyid 'Ata' Allah al-Maliki al-Husayni, 1113 AH/AD 1701 [mode of acquisition unknown] [see seal on fol. 2a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1083 AH/AD 1673",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.590.147A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.590.147a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.590.147a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.590.147a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28,
            "height": 16
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 x W: 6 5/16 in. (28 x 16 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration]  tamma al-kitāb al-mubārak bi-hamd Allāh ta'alá /1/ wa-'awnih wa-husn tawfīqih 'alyad afqar 'ibād Allāh wa-ahwajihim ilá maghfiratih 'Alī Ibn Muhibb'alī /2/ ghafara Allāh lahu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-mashāyikhih wa-jamī' al-muslimīn /3/ ghurrat shahr Dhī al-Qa'dah sanat /4/ tal<ā>th wa-thamānīn wa-alf ahsana Allāh /5/ 'āqibatahahā bi-khayr bi-Muhammad wa-<ā>alih amīn amīn /6/ yā Rabb al-'ālamīn /7/",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15715",
        "15716"
    ],
    "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.590.147a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f650755434049bcc"
}