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    "localId": "7994",
    "label": "Epic of Alexander the Great",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.664"
}

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    "id": "7994",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.664",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Epic of Alexander the Great",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.664, copied by Kamal ibn 'Abd Allah al-Qaramani in a clear vocalized Naskh script, is a copy of the Epic of Alexander the Great or the Alexander romance (Iskendername) by Ahmet bin Ibrahim Ahmedi (died 815 AH/AD 1413). It was completed in Aleppo (Halab) in 891 AH/AD 1486. Written in two columns and surrounded by a frame, it opens with a decorated title page and an incipit page with the inscription: al-mulk li-Llah al-wahid (Supreme authority belongs the One God).",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "891 AH/AD 1486 (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.664",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.664.binding_Int_DD_lowerboardinsideflapopen.jpg",
    "imageCount": 9,
    "pageCount": 9,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 33,
            "height": 23
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 13 x W: 9 1/16 in. (33 x 23 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Ottoman Dynasty",
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "80989",
        "80988",
        "80987"
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    "med": "ink and pigments on thick, non-European paper and Italian paper covered with brown leather",
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        "17757"
    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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