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    "localId": "3294",
    "label": "Gospel Book",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.540"
}

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    "id": "3294",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.540",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Gospel Book",
    "description": "This manuscript was executed in 1475 CE by a scribe identified as Aristakes for a priest named Hakob. It contains a series of sixteen images on the life of Christ preceding the text of the Gospels, as well as the traditional Evangelist portraits, and there are marginal illustrations throughout. The style of the miniatures, which employ brilliant colors and emphasize decorative patterns, is characteristic of manuscript production in the region around Lake Van during the fifteenth century. The style of Lake Van has often been described in relation to schools of Islamic arts of the book. Numerous inscriptions (on fols. 258-260) spanning a few centuries attest to the manuscript's long history of use and revered preservation. The codex's later history included a rebinding with silver covers from Kayseri that date to approximately 1700. This jeweled and enameled silver binding bears a composition of the Adoration of the Magi on the front and the Ascension on the back.",
    "provenance": "Created by Aristakes for Priest Hakob, son of Umek and Hrip'sime, Armenia [possibly in the Lake Van Region, Türkiye], 1475 [1]. Mahdesi Elia, Erzerum, 1717, by purchase; Surb Parsan (St. Parsam), [DATE], Tokat, Türkiye, by gift [2]. Louis Froget, Lyons and Paris, France, by 1901, [mode of acquisition unknown] [3]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, MD, 1901, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] Armenian patriarch, Karekin Hovsepian, identified the creation place as Tauris, Persia (modern Tabriz, Iran) in 1936.[2] Undated ownership notices include: Ter Ghazar and sons Ter Abraham and Ter Hakob; Khodja Ghazar and Astvadsatur (who renewed and deposited the manuscript at the Church of the Holy Virgin [location unknown]); and Bishop Poghos, who rebound it with help from his son Hovannes Malaz.[3] The precise location of this manuscript is unknown between 1751 and 1901, and it may have been removed from Armenian territory during the 19th-century Armenian massacres.",
    "date": "1475",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.540",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.540.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.540.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26,
            "height": 17
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 10 1/4 × W: 6 11/16 in. (26 × 17 cm); Closed H: 10 11/16 × W: 7 5/8 × D: 3 3/16 in. (27.2 × 19.4 × 8.1 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Armenian",
    "style": "Armenian",
    "RelatedObjects": 5764,
    "med": "ink and pigments on medium-weight, trimmed, discolored paper folios with rounded outer edges and parchment flyleaves bound between boards covered with goatskin, repoussé, silver and gilded silver, enamel, and semi-precious and ruby inlay",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6300",
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "2012",
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