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    "localId": "12237",
    "label": "Gospels",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.526"
}

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    "id": "12237",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.526",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Gospels",
    "description": "This volume is primarily remarkable for its excellently preserved early (but not original) binding, as well as the peculiar style of its miniatures. The manuscript opens with an unusual, icon-like prefatory image of the Virgin and Child, possibly added at an early stage for use in private devotion, and is followed by Evangelist portraits facing ornate headpieces. These illuminations are important examples of non-Constantinopolitan Byzantine art.",
    "provenance": "Sophia Negroponte, Chios [seen in Negroponte library by A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus in 1885]; Russian Skete of St. Andrew Karies, Mt. Athos, 1900 [no. 754; seen there by C.R. Gregory on March 26, 1902]; Thomas Whittemore, England, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 13th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.526",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17,
            "height": 11.2,
            "depth": 16.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall H: 6 11/16 x W: 4 7/16 x D: 6 3/8 in. (17 x 11.2 x 16.2 cm); Folio H: 6 5/8 × W: 4 5/16 in. (16.8 × 11 cm)"
}

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    "med": "ink and pigments on medium-weight parchment bound between wooden boards covered with tooled dark read goatskin",
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