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{
    "localId": "83595",
    "label": "Incipit Page with Illuminated Titlepiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.610.31B"
}

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    "id": "83595",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.610.31B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Incipit Page with Illuminated Titlepiece",
    "description": "This incipit page  from Walters manuscript W.610 has an illuminated titlepiece inscribed with the title of the 2nd poem of the Khamsah: Kitab-i Khusraw va Shirin.This folio from Walters also contains 1 of 6 short colophons in Arabic with neither date nor scribe's name.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 10th century AH/AD 16th century (Safavid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.610.31B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.610.31b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.610.31b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 32.5,
            "height": 20
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 13/16 x W: 7 7/8 in. (32.5 x 20 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "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.610.31b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "2a0d3870db3432dd"
}