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    "localId": "6966",
    "label": "Estoire d'Eracles",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.142"
}

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    "id": "6966",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.142",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Estoire d'Eracles",
    "provenance": "Monsieur du Vassy (?), possibly Tours, late 17th century [1]. Clermont-Gallerande Family, late 17th or 18th century [2]. Acquired by Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris, ca. 1875 [3]; Firmin-Didot Sale, Paris, June 9-15 1881, no. 63; purchased by member of Didot family. Purchased by Henry Yates Thompson, England, 1896 [4]. Acquired by Léon Gruel, Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1907; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Pasted onto front pastedown: deed inscribed with partly extant date identified as 1682, bearing two stamps citing Tours and price of 10 sous; below, partly effaced, two names added later, lower one 'Monsieur du Vassy' (?).[2] Armorial bookplate of count of Clermont-Gallerande family pasted on top of deed, 17th or 18th century.[3] Made available to Gaston Paris for printed edition of 1879-80[4] Thompson Collection Number: Ms. 43",
    "date": "1300-1340",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.142",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.142.binding_DD_ATKW17-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.142.binding_DD_ATKW17-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 36.7,
            "height": 25.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 14 7/16 x 10 3/16 in. (36.7 x 25.8 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "ink, paint, and gold on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
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    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2339",
        "386",
        "249",
        "3088",
        "94",
        "3089",
        "29",
        "3314"
    ]
}

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