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{
    "localId": "80028",
    "label": "Illuminated Title Page with Authors' Names and Patronage Statement",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.581.1A"
}

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    "id": "80028",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.581.1A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Title Page with Authors' Names and Patronage Statement",
    "description": "This illuminated title page from Walters manuscript W.581 gives the title of the work, as well as the authors' names. There is also a statement referring to the patronage of the manuscript, indicating that it was made for the Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library (bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-\"Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah).",
    "provenance": "Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library, Konya, Turkey (?), 767 AH/AD 1366 [mode of acquisition unknown] [bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-'Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah… (fol.1a)]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "767 AH/AD 1366",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.581.1A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.581.1A_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.581.1A_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27,
            "height": 18
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 5/8 x W: 7 1/16 in. (27 x 18 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper with chain lines grouped in twos",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "16853",
        "16535"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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