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{
    "localId": "79952",
    "label": "Illuminated Incipit Page with Headpiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.556.4B"
}

{
    "id": "79952",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.556.4B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Incipit Page with Headpiece",
    "description": "This illuminated incipit page from Walters manuscript W.556 has a headpiece with an inscription in an Early Abbasid (Kufic) script that is now illegible due to damage. The headpiece is of geometric design in gold, white, and blue with a palmette medallion in the margin. The palmette has been cropped due to a later trimming of the manuscript.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "6th century AH/AD 12th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.556.4B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.556.4b_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.556.4b_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.556.4b_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 16,
            "height": 15
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 5/16 x W: 5 7/8 in. (16 x 15 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15527"
    ],
    "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.556.4b_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "mediaId": "b102eaf5400a04cf"
}