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    "localId": "84866",
    "label": "Colophon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.666.62B"
}

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    "id": "84866",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.666.62B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Colophon",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.666 contains 1 of 2 colophons (fols. 21a and 62b); the first (in Turkish) gives a fuller name of the scribe; the second (in Arabic) gives the name of the scribe as Khayr Allah Jawush Zadah and the date of copying as Friday, mid Rajab 1133 AH/AD 1721.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.666.62B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.666.62b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.666.62b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21,
            "height": 15.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/4 x W: 6 1/8 in. (21 x 15.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration] al-hamd li-Llāh 'alá al-tamām wa-'lá rasūlih wa-<ā>lih afdal al-salāh wa-al-salām /1/ 'alá yad afqar al-wará Khayr Allāh Jāwush zādah matta'anā Allāh /2/ bi-al-husná wa-ziyādah [sic] qad waqa'a al-farāgh min tahrīr hadhihi /3/ al-nuskhah al-sharīfah fī waqt al-duhá yawm al-jum'ah /4/ min awāsit Rajab al-murajjab li-sanat thal<ā>th /5/ wa-thalathīn wa-mi<'>ah wa-alf min /6/ hijrah [sic] al-nabawīyah /7/ m (= tamma) /8/",
    "dynasty": "Ottoman Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
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        "19388"
    ],
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        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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