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{
    "localId": "80034",
    "label": "Double-page Illuminated Frontispiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.625.3A"
}

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    "id": "80034",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.625.3A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Double-page Illuminated Frontispiece",
    "description": "This is the left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece from Walters manuscript W.625 with inscriptions in decorated New Abbasid (Broken Cursive) Style of the first book (daftar) of the Collection of poems (Masnavi-i ma'navi).",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "865 AH/AD 1461",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.625.3A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.625.3A_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.625.3A_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.5,
            "height": 16
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 5/8 x W: 6 5/16 in. (24.5 x 16 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic; Persian",
    "med": "ink and pigments on buff-colored laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15728",
        "15727"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MIS",
        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.625.3A_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "mediaId": "1545919a5fb8d70d"
}