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Source Description
This folio from Walters manucscript W.609 contains an Arabic colophon that gives the title of the work and the scribe's name.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
81306
label
Colophon
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
81306
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Colophon
description
This folio from Walters manucscript W.609 contains an Arabic colophon that gives the title of the work and the scribe's name.
provenance
Muhammad Asharf ibn Muhammad Khatam al-Husayni, 1173 AH/AD 1759-1760 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression on fols. 1a and 401a]; Husayn …[?], 1308 AH/AD 1890-1891 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership statement on fol. 1b]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
922 AH/AD 1516 (Safavid)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
illuminated manuscripts
folios (leaves)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
29
height
17.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 11 7/16 x W: 6 7/8 in. (29 x 17.5 cm)
Source extras
cul
Islamic
inscriptions
[Transliteration] tammat [sic] al-kitāb al-Khamsah al-mubārak bi-'awn Allāh ta'ālá wa-tabāraka /1/ 'alá yad al-'abd al-da'īf al-mudhnib al-rājī ilá rahmat Allāh /2/ al-samad al-qawī Yār Muhammad al-Harawī /3/ ghafara Allāh dhunūbahu /4/ m (= tamma) /5/
dynasty
Safavid Dynasty
med
ink and pigments on buff-colored laid paper
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7689
18134
18135
collection_ids
MSS
MIS
ISL
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
b7c44e425f1b2827