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    "localId": "3513",
    "label": "Collection of Poems (divan)",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.630"
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Collection of Poems (divan)",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.630 is an illuminated copy of the collection of poems (divan) by Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz al-Shirazi (flourished 8th century AH/AD 14th). The manuscript is written in black Nasta'liq script by 'Ali Quli Barrak (?) and dated Sha'ban 966 AH/AD 1559. The text opens with an illuminated incipit with titlepiece inscribed: Divan-i Khvajah Hafiz Shirazi 'alayhi al-rahmah (fol. 1b). The text of the incipit and the facing page (fols. 1b-2a) has gilt interlinear decoration. The dark brown leather binding, which is original to the manuscript, is panel-stamped in relief with a central lobed medallion with pendants and an allover floral and vine decoration. The doublures of red-brown leather have a central medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces in leather filigree on a blue ground.",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman Khan (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [erased waqf seal and statement signed by [Ibrahim] Hanif, inspector of awqaf and the shelfmarks 3815 and 3795 (crossed out) on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "966 AH/AD 1559 (Safavid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.630",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26,
            "height": 15.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 10 1/4 x W: 6 1/8 in. (26 x 15.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
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    "med": "ink and pigments on cream-colored laid paper covered with dark brown leather with gold; red-brown leather doublures",
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        "2827"
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