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    "localId": "23322",
    "label": "Five Poems (Quintet)",
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    "title": "Five Poems (Quintet)",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.612, this illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Nizami Ganjavi (died 605 AH/AD 1209) dates to the 11th century AH/AD 17th.  The codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a). Each of the 5 poems begins with an illuminated headpiece (fols. 32b, 117b, 176b, 240b, 331b), and there are 36 illustrations. The lacquer binding is not original to the manuscript.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "11th century AH/AD 17th century (Safavid)",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 10 5/8 x W: 6 1/2 in. (27 x 16.5 cm)"
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