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{
    "localId": "83187",
    "label": "Illuminated Incipit with Headpiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.604.146B"
}

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    "id": "83187",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.604.146B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Incipit with Headpiece",
    "description": "This illuminated incipit page from Walters manuscript W.604 introduces the 4th poem of the Khamsah, Haft paykar, and has a headpiece inscribed with the doxological formula (basmalah) in a foliated New Abbasid (Broken Cursive) Style.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "885-886 AH/AD 1481 (Timurid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.604.146B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.604.146b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.604.146b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.5,
            "height": 16
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/4 x W: 6 5/16 in. (23.5 x 16 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Timurid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7689"
    ],
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.604.146b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "86849556d067469e"
}