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    "localId": "83719",
    "label": "Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.618.136A"
}

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    "id": "83719",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.618.136A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Colophon",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.618 contains a colophon in Arabic, giving only the name of the scribe.",
    "provenance": "Private collection, Tehran [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [list of books, by an anonymous owner, which were in his house in Tehran on fol. 1b]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "10th century AH/AD 16th century (Safavid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.618.136A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.618.136a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.618.136a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26.5,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 7/16 x W: 6 1/2 in. (26.5 x 16.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration] tammat al-risālah al-mawsūmah /1/ bi-Nasīhat al-mulūk bi-'awn Allāh wa-tawfīqih wa-sallá Allāh 'alá Muhammad wa-ālih /2/ 'alá yad al-'abd al-faqīral-mudhnib 'Abd Allāh bn Shaykh Murshid al-Kātib /3/",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper with gold-sprinkled margins",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15725",
        "15724"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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