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{
    "localId": "82840",
    "label": "Illuminated Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.641.70B"
}

{
    "id": "82840",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.641.70B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Colophon",
    "description": "In this colophon from Walters manuscript W.641, the scribe Sultan \"Ali indicates that the manuscript was completed in 899 AH/AD 1493-1494 in the city of Herat, which is in present day Afghanistan. It reads as follows: qad faragha min taswid hdh al-kitab bi-'awn al-malik al-wahhab aqall al-'ibad /1/ Sultan 'Ali tajawaza Allah 'an sayyiaah /3/ bi-baldat Harat /4/ m [=tamma] /5/.",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman (reigned 1027 AH/AD 1618-1031 AH/AD 1622) (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [erased waqf-seal and waqf-registration statement probably belonging to the Sultan on folio 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "899 AH/AD 1493-1494 (Timurid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.641.70B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.641.70b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.641.70b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.641.70b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17,
            "height": 11.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 11/16 x W: 4 1/2 in. (17 x 11.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic; Persian",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration] qad faragha min taswīd h<ā>dh<ā> al-kitāb bi-'awn al-malik al-wahhāb aqall al-'ibād /1/ Sultān 'Alī tajāwaza Allāh 'an sayyiā<'>ātih fī shuhūr /2/ sanat tis' wa-tis'īn wa-thamānimi<'>ah /3/ bi-baldat Harāt /4/ m [=tamma] /5/",
    "dynasty": "Timurid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on thick, well-polished, off-white paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16856",
        "15674"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL",
        "MIS",
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.641.70b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "5d15ab62074c73bc"
}