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    "localId": "81321",
    "label": "Leaf from Book of Hours: Hours of the Virgin, Monks Playing Blind-Man's Bluff",
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    "id": "81321",
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    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Leaf from Book of Hours: Hours of the Virgin, Monks Playing Blind-Man's Bluff",
    "description": "The hockey game on the facing page is surprisingly paired here with monks enjoying a game of blind-man's bluff, a form of tag. The seated monk's hood covers his eyes so that he only hears his teasing companions. Blindly, he must tag another player and make him \"it.\"",
    "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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        "folios (leaves)"
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    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
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    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.7,
            "height": 10.4
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 13/16 × W: 4 1/8 in. (14.7 × 10.4 cm)"
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