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    "localId": "20202",
    "label": "Book of Hours",
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    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.435",
    "contentType": "manuscript",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Book of Hours",
    "description": "This beautifully bound Book of Hours was completed in Bruges ca. 1490. The illuminator's style was influenced by the Master of Edward IV, active ca. 1470-90, and followers. The manuscript includes twelve full-page miniatures and twenty-five small miniatures, along with sacred and secular marginalia and some illusionistic borders. While the sheer volume of miniatures is remarkable, the decoration program as a whole only strengthens the manuscript's impact. Select marginalia motifs reinforce the compositional motifs of the miniatures; see fols. 25v and 26r for Passion motifs.",
    "provenance": "Unknown owner, Italy, ca. 1546 [1]. Acquired by Leo S. Olschki, Florence [2]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912 [3]; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Effaced inscription, on fol. 1r, Rome; Italian entry beneath dated Nov. 1, 1546, reading, \"\"A.Q.D.C.R. Addi pmo novembr .M.D. xlvi in Ra\"\"[2] On front pastedown, \"\"45\"\" and inventory number \"\"31457\"\".[3] Invoice number 45, see Walters archives.",
    "date": "ca. 1490",
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    "language": "en",
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    "med": "ink and pigments on parchment bound between wooden boards covered with crimson velvet",
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