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{
    "localId": "30103",
    "label": "Qur'an",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.570"
}

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    "id": "30103",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.570",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Qur'an",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.570 is a large-size illuminated copy of the Qur'an made probably in Turkey in the 11th century AH/AD 17th century. This polychrome manuscript is penned in a number of scripts, including Muhaqqaq, Thuluth, Naskh and Tawqi'.",
    "provenance": "Sultan Ahmad (reigned 1703-1730) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mosque of Murad Pasha, Istanbul, 1719, by gift [donated by the Ottoman ruler Sultan Ahmad to the Mosque]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "11th century AH/AD 17th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.570",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_W.570.binding_Int_DD_T10_LowerCoverInterior.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_W.570.binding_Int_DD_T10_LowerCoverInterior.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_W.570.binding_Int_DD_T10_LowerCoverInterior.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 51,
            "height": 37
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 20 1/16 x W: 14 9/16 in. (51 x 37 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "81817",
        "81694",
        "81693",
        "81692",
        "81691",
        "81690"
    ],
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid, non-European with flyleaves of Italian, pink-tinted paper covered with leather",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2431"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2827",
        "186",
        "112"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_W.570.binding_Int_DD_T10_LowerCoverInterior.jpg",
    "mediaId": "94c196a7d4c46328"
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