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    "localId": "81124",
    "label": "Illuminated Chapter Heading for Chapter 20 with Marginal Medallion",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.568.21A"
}

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    "id": "81124",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.568.21A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Chapter Heading for Chapter 20 with Marginal Medallion",
    "description": "On this folio from Walters manuscript W.568, the illuminated chapter heading for chapter 20 (Surat Ta Ha) is written in a decorative 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.568.21A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "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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        "15527"
    ],
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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