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    "localId": "16033",
    "label": "Alphonsus de Benavento, Treatise",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.421"
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    "id": "16033",
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    "title": "Alphonsus de Benavento, Treatise",
    "description": "Alphonsus de Benavento wrote the treatise on penitential canons and acts of confession contained in this manuscript. The colophon informs us that Alphonsus was a professor of canon law at the university of Salmanca, Spain, and wrote this manuscript in 1456 in the nearby city of Tejares. At that time there was a pestilence in the city, for which Alphonsus asks for prayers. A historiated initial in which Alphonsus presents the treatise to a bishop begins the text, and the manuscript still retains its original stamped red leather binding.",
    "provenance": "Marques de Morante collection, Madrid, 1859 (?) [cat. VI, 1859, n. 11107, pp. 533, 534] [mode of acquisition]; Baschelin, Paris, 1872, by purchase [from Morante Sale, 1, n. 47]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1456",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.421",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22,
            "height": 14.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall H: 8 11/16 x W: 5 13/16 in. (22 x 14.7 cm); Folio H: 8 3/16 × W: 5 9/16 in. (20.8 × 14.2 cm)"
}

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    "med": "ink and pigments on thin to medium-weight parchment bound between wooden boards covered with orange-red leather tooled with Hispano-Moresque design with rectangular borders",
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