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    "localId": "77621",
    "label": "Left Side of a Double-page Illuminated Incipit",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.562.3A"
}

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    "id": "77621",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.562.3A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Left Side of a Double-page Illuminated Incipit",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.562 is the left side of a double-page illuminated incipit for chapter 78 (Surat al-naba'). The inscription in the illuminated panels is verses 79-81 of chapter 56 (Surat al-waqi'ah). The panel inscription is written in the New Abbasid (Broken Cursive) style in gold on a blue ground with green arabesques.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "9th century AH/AD 15th century (Timurid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.562.3A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.562.3A_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.562.3A_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 38,
            "height": 28
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 14 15/16 x W: 11 in. (38 x 28 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Timurid",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
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    ],
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "186"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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