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{
    "localId": "20993",
    "label": "Modern Illuminated Title Page from a Collection of Works: Initial L",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.2.1Rbis"
}

{
    "id": "20993",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.2.1Rbis",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Modern Illuminated Title Page from a Collection of Works: Initial L",
    "description": "This title page was added in the nineteenth century by an artist attempting to recreate a medieval illuminated initial, likely to make the book more desirable for collectors.",
    "provenance": "Created in Champagne, France (?). The monastery of Saint-André de Villeneuve-lés-Avignon, 17th century [1]; Acquired by Bénigne-Charles Févret de St. Mesmin [1739-1792], Dijon [2]. Acquired by Léon Gruel, 19th-20th century, Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] ownership inscription added in 17th century in upper margin of fol. 2r: 'Iste liber est monasterii sancti Andree dyocesis auinionensis / .aab. /; and in another slightly later hand, added after 1635: Monasterii Sancti Andreae congregationis S. Mauri: /; in lower margin, added after 1640: 'Catalogus inscriptus', reference to 36-line description of W. 2 in Saint-André library catalogue begun 29 September 1640 by Dom Odon de la Mothe (d. 1643), binding described as 'postibus copertam et basana alba a parte putrida'[2] facsimile (?) of bookplate of Bénigne-Charles Févret de St. Mesmin (here spelled 'Memin') of Dijon (1739-1792), affixed in all likelihood by Gruel at time of rebinding, 19th/20th century (?)",
    "date": "19th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.2.1Rbis",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/W2_000005_sap.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/W2_000005_sap.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/W2_000005_sap.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19.8,
            "height": 16
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 13/16 × W: 6 5/16 in. (19.8 × 16 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Carolingian",
    "med": "ink and pigments on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6422",
        "3552",
        "3686",
        "6505"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/W2_000005_sap.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f5f186b19ec0e409"
}