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    "localId": "79633",
    "label": "Incipit Page with Illuminated Headpiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.582.5B"
}

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    "id": "79633",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.582.5B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Incipit Page with Illuminated Headpiece",
    "description": "The poem begins on this illuminated page from Walters manuscript W.582. The central panel is framed by decorated margins and a domed headpiece. The text itself is divided into 4 panels executed in Naskh (black) and Thuluth (gold and blue) scripts.",
    "provenance": "[Two erased large seals on folio 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "11th century AH/AD 17th century-12th century AH/AD 18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.582.5B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.582.5B_Fp_DD_TMS.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25.5,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 1/16 x W: 6 1/2 in. (25.5 x 16.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on cream, glazed paper for main panel with multi-colored paper for inlaid margins",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "16535"
    ],
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        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2827"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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