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    "localId": "18172",
    "label": "Evangelist John Seated",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.530.GR"
}

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    "id": "18172",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.530.GR",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Evangelist John Seated",
    "description": "This page once prefaced the Gospel text of John in Mount Athos at the Monastery of Great Lavra (MS A76), dating to the late thirteenth century. The verso of St. John is illustrated with Christ appearing to his disciples after the Resurrection (Walters W.530.GV). Other detached leaves from this manuscript are now found in Paris, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (Mn.Mas 2), and St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia (MS gr. 305).",
    "provenance": "[Folios 107bis in Mount Athos, Great Lavra MS A76]; Leon Gruel, Paris [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.530.GR",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Manuscripts & Rare Books",
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25,
            "height": 16.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 9 13/16 x W: 6 9/16 in. (25 x 16.7 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Byzantine",
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