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    "localId": "90608",
    "label": "Leaf from Qur'an",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.561.8B"
}

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    "id": "90608",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.561.8B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Leaf from Qur'an",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.561 contains an illuminated titlepiece in a rectangular panel. The titlepiece is inscribed al-juz' al-thani min al-rab'ah al-sharifah on a blue background with gold arabesques. Below is a bequest (waqf) statement in the name of the Mamluk Amir Aytimish (also Aytmish) [al-Bajasi] (died 802 AH/AD 1400) for the library of the Madrasah (later known as al-Madrasah al-Aytimishiyah), which he established at Cairo's Bab al-Wazir.",
    "provenance": "Mamluk Amir Aytimish (Aytmish) [al-Bajasi] (died 802 AH/AD 1400), Cairo [date of acquisition unknown], by commission; Library of the Madrasah [later known as al-Madrasah al-Aytimishiyah], Bab al-Wazir, Cairo [date of acquistion unknown], by bequest [bequest (waqf) statement in the name of the Mamluk Amir Aytimish on folio 3a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th quarter 8th century AH/AD 14th century (Mamluk)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.561.8B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 37,
            "height": 26.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 14 9/16 x W: 10 7/16 in. (37 x 26.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Mamluk Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on Arab paper with chain lines grouped in threes",
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        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL",
        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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