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{
    "localId": "80024",
    "label": "Illuminated Incipit with Headpiece for Chapter 19",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.568.1B"
}

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    "id": "80024",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.568.1B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Incipit with Headpiece for Chapter 19",
    "description": "This page from Walters manuscript W.568 has an illuminated headpiece inscribed with the chapter heading for chapter 19 (Surat Maryam) in the New Abbasid (Broken Cursive) style in gold ink. The text is written in a large Maghribi script, with vocalization in red, green, and yellow ink.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "12th century AH/AD 18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.568.1B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.568.1b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.568.1b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 30,
            "height": 21.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 13/16 x W: 8 7/16 in. (30 x 21.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on Italian paper with a watermark of three crescents",
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    ],
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        "MIS"
    ],
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    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.568.1b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "5ccb386a0006b221"
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