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    "localId": "83587",
    "label": "Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.605.119A"
}

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    "id": "83587",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.605.119A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Colophon",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.605 contains the 2ns of 5 colophons in Arabic giving the names of the scribe, illuminator, and bookbinder.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "892 AH/AD 1486-900 AH/AD 1494-1495 (Safavid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.605.119A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.605.119a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.605.119a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23,
            "height": 16
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/16 x W: 6 5/16 in. (23 x 16 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration] qad faragha min tahrīr hadhā kitāb [sic] al-latīf wa-hiya [sic] jild [sic] al-thānī min /1/ jumlat al-Khamsah al-musammá bi-hi [sic] Laylá wa-Majnūn min kalām shaykh al-muhaqqiqīn /2/ qudwat al-'ārifin zubdat al-sālikīn Shaykh Nizāmī al-Kanjah /3/ 'alayhi al-rahmah wa-al-ridwān wa-al-maghrifah wal-ghufrān al-'abd /4/ al-faqīr al-haqīr al-da'īf al-muftaqir ilá rahmat Allāh al-malik /5/ al-jānī Abū Bakr Shāh ibn Hasan ibn 'Alī al-Sharastānī /6/ ahsana Allāh ahwālahu wa-ghafara lahu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-li-sāyir al-mu'minīn /7/ wa-al-mu'mināt wa-al-Muslimīn wa-al-Muslimāt fī ta<'>rīkh sanat ithnayn /8/ wa-tais'īn wa-thamānimi'ah al-hijrīyah al-nabawīyah al-mustafawīyah /9/ wa-sallá Allāh 'alá Muhammad wa-'alá jamī' al-anbiyā' wa-al-mursalīn /10/ wa-'alá <ā>lih wa-ashābih wa-azwājih ajma'īn /11/ al-tayyibīn wa-al-tāhirīn wa- /12/ al-hamd li-Llāh rabb al-'ālamīn /13/ tamma /14/",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7689",
        "15721",
        "15722"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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