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    "localId": "80026",
    "label": "Leaf from Prayer Book",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.578.4A"
}

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    "id": "80026",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.578.4A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Leaf from Prayer Book",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.578 includes calligraphic text in multiple scripts arranged in compartments.",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman Khan III, son of Mustafa II (reigned 1168-1171 AH/AD 1754-1757) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [waqf entry in the name of the Sultan signed by Ibrahim Hanif, inspector of awqaf on fol. 2a and seals of the Sultan and the inspector erased]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "11th century AH/AD 17th century (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.578.4A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.578.4a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.578.4a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31.5,
            "height": 21.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 3/8 x W: 8 7/16 in. (31.5 x 21.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on gold-sprinkled paper and tan tinted paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16852"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "112"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "0bc90385a5a4be2f"
}