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{
    "localId": "81379",
    "label": "Illuminated Incipit Page with Headpiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.629.1B"
}

{
    "id": "81379",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.629.1B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Incipit Page with Headpiece",
    "description": "This page from Walters manuscript W.629 has an illuminated headpiece inscribed wa-Llah khayr hafiz. The main text is decorated with interlinear illumination with polychrome motifs. The vertical divider is illuminated with floral motifs on a blue ground. The headpiece and written surface are surrounded by a dark blue band with white crosses and an illuminated frame.",
    "provenance": "Mustafá Pasha Vali-i Iskandariyah, prior to 1231 [mode of acquisition unknown] [dated 1231, see fol. 1a]; Hasan Haqqi, 1285 [mode of acquisition unknown] [see fol. 1a]; Hasan Haqqi Vali-i Salanik, 1303 [mode of acquisition unknown] [see fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "958 AH/AD 1552 (Safavid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.629.1B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.629.1b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.629.1b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.629.1b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20.5,
            "height": 12
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/16 x W: 4 3/4 in. (20.5 x 12 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on buff and rose-tinted laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15730"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.629.1b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "fb27a7e26f88edef"
}