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    "localId": "81377",
    "label": "Double-page Illuminated Incipit",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.563.550A"
}

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    "id": "81377",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.563.550A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Double-page Illuminated Incipit",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.563 is the left side of a double-page illuminated incipit introducing the final chapter, chapter 144 (Surat al-nas). The text is written in gold Muhaqqaq script, outlined in black with vocalization in blue and counters filled in in red. The ground is decorated with floral motifs. The margins contain various phrases and words with explanations of their readings according to different reciters.",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman Khan [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [erased bequest (waqf) statement and stamp on fol. 3a]; Sultan Bayezid II [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal on fol. 8a]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "9th century AH/AD 15th century (Timurid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.563.550A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 40,
            "height": 31
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 15 3/4 x W: 12 3/16 in. (40 x 31 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Timurid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on thin laid paper",
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    ],
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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