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{
    "localId": "83291",
    "label": "Incipit with Illuminated Headpiece and Titlepiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.657.54B"
}

{
    "id": "83291",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.657.54B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Incipit with Illuminated Headpiece and Titlepiece",
    "description": "This incipit page from Walters manuscript W.657 has a few illuminated pieces. Above, there is a headpiece inscribed: huwa Allah. At the right is a triangular piece and the inscription: Shirin va Khusraw-i Amir Khusraw.",
    "provenance": "Mundir [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression with motton on fol. 280b]; Khwand Mulla Mahdi Sahhaf-i Tabrizi, Tabriz, 1295 AH/AD 1878 [mode of acquisition unknown] [note regarding re-binding and restoration of this volume by the bookbinder on front flyleaf iia]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "10th century AH/AD 16th century (Safavid (?))",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.657.54B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.657.54b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.657.54b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.657.54b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28,
            "height": 19
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 x W: 7 1/2 in. (28 x 19 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic; Persian",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty (?)",
    "med": "ink and pigments on tinted laid paper: cream for text area and rose or light brown for margins",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7404",
        "7689"
    ],
    "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.657.54b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "05321533e614e924"
}