OpenTwo archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Illustrated Manuscript” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · 1330s
Illustrated manuscript of the Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lianhua jing), Volume 2
Unidentified artist · ca. 1340
Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century
Illustrated Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · dated 815 AH/1412 CE
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · dated 531 AH/1137 CE
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180
Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1268 AH/1851–52 CE
"Jonah and the Whale", Folio Probably from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Muhammad al-Zanjani · dated 531 AH/1137 CE
The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee: Folio from a Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript
Mahavihara Master · early 12th century
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 1731 matched · 24 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 02:55 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.