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{
    "localId": "82797",
    "label": "Leaf from Ottoman Diploma in Calligraphy",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.674.2B"
}

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    "id": "82797",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.674.2B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Leaf from Ottoman Diploma in Calligraphy",
    "description": "This page from Walters manuscript W.674 bears 4 diplomas written within illuminated cartouches inscribed in ijazah script by the following master calligraphers: Yaziji zadah, Isma'il al-Zuhdi Katib al-Saray al-Sultani, Muhammad Hasib, and 'Ali al-Wasfi. The page is dated 1219 AH/AD 1804-1805.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1219 AH/AD 1804-1805 (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.674.2B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.674.2b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.674.2b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.674.2b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 16,
            "height": 22
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 6 5/16 x W: 8 11/16 in. (16 x 22 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Ottoman Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on paper mounted on thin pasteboard",
    "creator_ids": [
        "19127",
        "19126",
        "19125",
        "19124",
        "19123"
    ],
    "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.674.2b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "fa8f0a772becbe46"
}