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    "localId": "79946",
    "label": "Text Page with Marginal Illumination",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.555.12B"
}

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    "id": "79946",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.555.12B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Text Page with Marginal Illumination",
    "description": "The first marginal form on this folio from Walters manuscript W.555 indicates verse 60 of chapter 25 (Surat al-furqan), and the second, in the form of a six-pointed star, indicates prostration (sajdah). The star is painted in black, red, and blue.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "5th century AH/AD 11th century-6th century AH/AD 12th century (Abbasid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.555.12B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.555.12B_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.555.12B_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 16.5,
            "height": 10.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 1/2 x W: 4 1/8 in. (16.5 x 10.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on brown laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6768"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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}