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    "localId": "83643",
    "label": "Incipit Page with Illuminated Headpiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.612.240B"
}

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    "id": "83643",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.612.240B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Incipit Page with Illuminated Headpiece",
    "description": "This incipit page from Walters manuscript W.612 has an illuminated headpiece beginning Sharafnamah, the 1st half of the 5rh poem of the Khamsah: Iskandarnamah.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "11th century AH/AD 17th century (Safavid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.612.240B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 5/8 x W: 6 1/2 in. (27 x 16.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on paper",
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    ],
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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