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{
    "localId": "14546",
    "label": "Book of Hours",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.534"
}

{
    "id": "14546",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.534",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Book of Hours",
    "description": "Illustrated Books of Hours in Greek are extremely rare. This example is also of interest because its miniatures show interaction between the Late Byzantine and Gothic artistic styles. It may have been copied on the island of Crete, which in the fifteenth century was ruled by Venice.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 15th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.534",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.534.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.534.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.534.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.2,
            "height": 7.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 3 5/8 × W: 2 7/8 in. (9.2 × 7.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "med": "ink and pigments on medium-weight parchment bound between flush-grooved wooden boards covered with green patterned silk with traces of clasps on the back cover",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "112",
        "2016"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.534.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f3770db28502a182"
}