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    "localId": "83462",
    "label": "Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.588.309A"
}

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    "id": "83462",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.588.309A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Colophon",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.588 contains a colophon that gives the date of copying and the scribe's name.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad Sadiq [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership statement on fol. 1a]; Muhammad Shafi' al-Tabib [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership statement and seal on fol. 1a]; 'Abd Allah Malti al-Tabib [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [private seal on fol. 1b]; 'Abbas Wasim, [1]144 AH [mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership statement and seal dated [1]144 AH on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "969 AH/AD 1561",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.588.309A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.588.309a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.588.309a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25,
            "height": 12.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 13/16 x W: 4 15/16 in. (25 x 12.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration] faraghtu min itmāmih tāsi' shahr /1 / Rabī' al-awwal sanat 969 /2 / kātibihu aqall 'ibā Allāh /3 / Khalīl Allāh Isfarāyinī /4 / ghafara dhunūbah wa-satar 'uyūbah /5 / wa-al-hamd li-Llāh awwlan /6 / wa-ākhiran wa- /7 / zāhiran /8 / wa-bātinan /9 / wa-sallam taslīman /10 / kathīran /11 / […?] /12/",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15713",
        "19260"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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