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{
    "localId": "3985",
    "label": "Leaf from Psalter: Psalm 97, Initial C with Clerics Singing",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.44.133R"
}

{
    "id": "3985",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.44.133R",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Leaf from Psalter: Psalm 97, Initial C with Clerics Singing",
    "description": "This page from Psalm 97 has a large, illuminated initial C inside of which stand three clerics singing in front of an altar.The Psalter was created in French Flanders for a lady with Cistercian connections in the third quarter of the thirteenth century. Fourteenth-century additions for the use of a woman suggest that it continued to be used by female supplicants for some time after its creation. A prefatory cycle of ten full-page miniatures was also added in the fourteenth century, which complemented the original, and more traditional, series of ten historiated initials found within the Psalter.",
    "provenance": "Created for unknown woman with Cistercian connections, Northeastern France (Flanders), 3rd quarter 13th century. Jacques Rosenthal collection, Munich, late 19th century [1]. Léon Gruel, Paris, early 20th century [2]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, early 20th century; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] 1901 dealer catalog 27, no. 74[2] Bookplate on the front flyleaf inscribed no. 63",
    "date": "3rd quarter 13th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.44.133R",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "folios (leaves)",
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/W44_000277_300.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/W44_000277_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/W44_000277_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 15.4,
            "height": 10
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 1/16 × W: 3 15/16 in. (15.4 × 10 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on medium-weight parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6505"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/W44_000277_300.jpg",
    "mediaId": "9f0b5f201d8f224b"
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