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{
    "localId": "79993",
    "label": "Illuminated Incipit Page with Headpiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.591.1B"
}

{
    "id": "79993",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.591.1B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Incipit Page with Headpiece",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.591 is an incipit page with an illuminated headpiece with the doxological formula (basmalah) in the cartouche in white Tawqi` script on a gold ground.",
    "provenance": "Izzat [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ex libiris (min kutub), seal erased on fol. 1a]; 'Abd al-Qadir [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ex libris, fol. 1a]; Muhammad Amin, Inspector of awqaf [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [bequest entry on behalf of Bashir Agha with seal and the shelfmark 419 on fol. 1a; bequest (waqf) seal of of Bashir Agha dated 1130 AH/AD 1717; the same seal is also present on fols. 2a, 35a, 52a, and 77b; the shelfmark 419 is also inscribed on the tail edge]; al-Hajj Bashir Agha Dar al-Sa'adah, 1130 AH/AD 1717, by bequest [ex libiris, dated 1158 AH/AD 1745 (plus his seal) on fol. 1a, middle of the page; the same seal is also on fols. 32b and 78a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "918 AH/AD 1512 (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.591.1B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.591.1B_FpDetA_DD_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.591.1B_FpDetA_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 18,
            "height": 11.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 1/16 x W: 4 1/2 in. (18 x 11.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "reign": "Sultan Selim I",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15718",
        "15718"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.591.1B_FpDetA_DD_300.jpg",
    "mediaId": "a06b954920fdea8b"
}