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    "title": "Text Page from Chapter 2",
    "description": "The text on this folio from Walters manuscript W.561 is written in large, vocalized Muhaqqaq script in black ink with the alifs of prolongation superscripted in red ink. The rosette with colored dots is a verse marker.",
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