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{
    "localId": "11347",
    "label": "Book of Hours",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.184"
}

{
    "id": "11347",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.184",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Book of Hours",
    "description": "This Book of Hours was created ca. 1460-70 CE in Bruges by the circle of Willem Vrelant. It contains six extant full-page miniatures, which were inserted or painted on the versos of folios left blank, with the images on fols. 101v and 120v created by a different artist. A highly embellished upper board was added in Germany in the nineteenth century that contains an ivory Christ nailed to an engraved gilded cross.",
    "provenance": "Unknown Italian owner, 17th century [1]. Purchased by Peter Marié, New York, August 1891 [2]; Marié Sale, New York, 1903, no. 573; purchased by George Richmond, New York, 1903; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Addition of Italian prayer on fol. 2r[2] Possibly purchased in Germany; inscription on flyleaf i, v reads \"\"573/Homburg August 1891/XIV/750 [crossed out]/647/1600 marks\"\"; sticker on same flyleaf indicates he loaned it to Grolier Club in 1892, inscribed \"\"P. Marie/ No. 8 [crossed out]/No. 77\"\"",
    "date": "ca. 1460-1470",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.184",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.184_Fp_DD_001_sap.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.184_Fp_DD_001_sap.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.184_Fp_DD_001_sap.jpg",
    "imageCount": 15,
    "pageCount": 15,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11,
            "height": 8.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 4 5/16 × W: 3 3/16 in. (11 × 8.1 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "ink and pigments on parchment bound between boards covered with leather, gilded metal, and ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6505",
        "8629"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED",
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "93"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.184_Fp_DD_011_sap.jpg",
    "mediaId": "4de8e218d6e3c789"
}