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    "localId": "14383",
    "label": "Book of Hours",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.95"
}

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    "id": "14383",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.95",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Book of Hours",
    "description": "This Book of Hours was completed ca. 1320-30 in the region of Ghent. The presence of the Hours of the Cross attributed to Pope John XXII (1316-1334) provides evidence that helps date the manuscript. The text is written in three languages, with the main text in Latin, Flemish prayers on fols. 123r-125v and fols. 131r-141r, and French rubrics throughout. Made for a woman portrayed kneeling before the cross on fol. 116v, this manuscript is decorated with twenty-four extant historiated initials and drolleries for each canonical hour.",
    "provenance": "Jacobi Santens Cercenasen, 16th century [1]. Léon Gruel, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century [2]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Note on fol. 98r: \"\"ad usum mei Jacobi Santens Cercenasen et omnium amicorum\"\" and \"\"emi eiusdem Jacobi santens ego ...\"\" (effaced)[2] No. 936 on front pastedown",
    "date": "1320-1330 (Gothic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.95",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.8,
            "height": 10.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 5 13/16 × W: 4 1/16 in. (14.8 × 10.3 cm); Closed H: 6 1/8 × W: 4 1/2 × D: 1 11/16 in. (15.5 × 11.5 × 4.3 cm); H of opening at 82v-83r: 3 3/4 × W: 7 1/2 × D: 6 1/8 in. (9.5 × 19 × 15.5 cm)"
}

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    "med": "ink and pigments on parchment bound between boards covered with velvet",
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    ],
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    ],
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        "3300"
    ]
}

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