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 “Manuscript Illumination with Initial H, from a Bible” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:15 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.
Manuscript Illumination with Initial H, from a Bible
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–95
Bible
Artist not stated in the record · 1477 (printing); 1478 (binding)
Bible
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250–75
Book of Flower Studies
Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515
Four Gospels in Armenian
Artist not stated in the record · 1434/35
Hebrew Bible
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1350 (before 1366)
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Lamb at the Foot of the Cross, Flanked by Two Angels; The Calling of Saint John with the Enthroned Christ flanked by Angels and a Man Holding a Book
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180
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 · dated 531 AH/1137 CE
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180
Section from a Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300
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. 892 matched · 24 examined · 0 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 13:15 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.