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    "label": "Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 66v, Text",
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    "title": "Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 66v, Text",
    "description": "Illustrated prayer books called books of hours remained popular with Europe’s elite well into the era of printing technology. This example belongs to a printed edition of five by the Parisian printer and engraver Guillaume Le Rouge, dating to 1510. Though printed on vellum (not paper), its 62 engraved pictures were hand-colored by an illuminator much like a traditional manuscript. By the mid-1480s, Paris was the center of production for books of hours with printed texts and engraved ornament. This book is therefore a hybrid fusing two distinct production methods—illumination and printing—representing the waning phase of the illuminator’s art prior to the complete transformation to printed books.",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 16.7 x 10.5 x 3 cm (6 9/16 x 4 1/8 x 1 3/16 in.)",
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    "tec": "112 printed folios on parchment, bound",
    "tombstone": "Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 66v, Text, 1510. Printed by Guillaume Le Rouge (French, Paris, active 1493–1517), miniatures by Master of the Très Petites Heures of Anne of Brittany (French, Paris, active c.1480–1510). 112 printed folios on parchment, bound; overall: 16.7 x 10.5 x 3 cm (6 9/16 x 4 1/8 x 1 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2009.276.66.b",
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    "didYouKnow": "The workshop of Guillaume le Rouge was in the Neuve Notre-Dame near Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Brunet, Jacques-Charles. Notice sur les Heures gothiques imprimées à Paris: à la fin du quinzième siècle et dans une partie du seizième, par J.-C. Brunet. VI Paris: Impr. Firmin Didot frères, 1864.",
            "page_number": "no. 354 and supplement, I, col. 620"
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        {
            "citation": "MONCEAUX, Henri. Les Le Rouge De Chablis II 1470-1531. [A List of Works Published by Members of the Family with Short Biographical Notices.]. 1895.",
            "page_number": "no. 58 and pp. 32-33"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lacombe, Paul. Livres d'heures imprimés su XVe et au XVe siècle conservés dans les bibliothèque publiques de Paris: catalogue. Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1963.",
            "page_number": "nos. 210 and 211"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Moreau, Brigitte, Philippe Renouard, and Stéphanie Öhlund-Rambaud. Inventaire chronologique des éditions Parisiennes du XVIe siècle. Paris: Service des Travaux Historiques de la Ville de Paris, 1972.",
            "page_number": "1510, no. 119"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Tenschert, Heribert, and Ina Nettekoven. Horae B.M.V. 158 Stundendrucke der Sammlung Bibermühle, 1490 - 1550 3 3. Rotthalmünster: Tenschert, 2003.",
            "page_number": "pp. 122-28, 690 ff."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Nettekoven, Ina. Der Meister der Apokalypsenrose der Sainte Chapelle und die Pariser Buchkunst um 1500. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hindman, Sandra. <em>Pen to Press, Paint to Print: Manuscript Illumination and Early Prints in the Age of Gutenberg. </em>Paris: Les Enluminures, 2009.",
            "page_number": "no. 14"
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    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.276.66.b",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
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