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{
    "localId": "79983",
    "label": "Illuminated Incipit Page with Headpiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.585.1B"
}

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    "id": "79983",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.585.1B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Incipit Page with Headpiece",
    "description": "This illuminated incipit page with polychrome floral design from Walters manuscript W.585 is inscribed with the doxological formula (basmalah).",
    "provenance": "Muhammad ibn Zadah al-Ayyubi, 1117 AH/AD 1705 [mode of acquisition unknown] [ex libiris fol. 1a]; Vizier al-Shahid 'Ali Pasha, 1130 AH/AD 1717 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown] [waqf seal of the Vizier on fol. 1a (erased) and on fol. 210b dated 1130 AH/AD 1717 with former shelf mark 1173]; 'Ali [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ex libiris fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1081 AH/AD 1670 (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.585.1B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.585.1B_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.585.1B_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20,
            "height": 12.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 7/8 x W: 4 15/16 in. (20 x 12.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Ottoman Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on cream-colored, watermarked laid European paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15708",
        "15707"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.585.1B_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
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