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{
    "localId": "77612",
    "label": "Right Side of a Double-page Illuminated Frontispiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.557.1B"
}

{
    "id": "77612",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.557.1B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Right Side of a Double-page Illuminated Frontispiece",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.557 is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece inscribed with the creed that the Qur'an is God's word uncreated: al-Qur'an kalam Allah ghayr makhluq wa-man qala makhluq fa-huwa kafir bi-Allah al-'Ali al-Azim. This inscription is written in Thuluth script.",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman Khan ibn Mustafá Khan (reigned 1168 AH/AD 1754-1171 AH/AD 1757) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Erased seal of Sultan 'Uthman Khan ibn Mustafá Khan and a waqf inscription by Ibrahim Hanif and his seal (fol. 1a)]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1897 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Inscription in pencil: H(enry) W(alters) May 1897 direct from Constantinople (front flyleaf ia)]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "6th century AH/AD 12th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.557.1B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.557.1b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.557.1b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.557.1b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 34.5,
            "height": 20.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13 9/16 x W: 8 1/16 in. (34.5 x 20.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper with chain lines that appear to be grouped in twos",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6747"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.557.1b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c68c138639edb3e3"
}