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{
    "localId": "19776",
    "label": "Initial \"\"P\"\" (Paulus servus)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.18.161V"
}

{
    "id": "19776",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.18.161V",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Initial \"\"P\"\" (Paulus servus)",
    "description": "The shaft of this letter \"P\" is filled with delicately rendered palmettes growing from green vine-scrolls that ascend and weave in and out of the letterform, as if climbing a trellis. A blue dragons head occurs in the upper part of the letterform; the tail of the \"P\" terminates in a profile head with blue hair, mustache, and beard.",
    "provenance": "Priory scriptorium of Rochester Cathedral, England, 12th century [possible reference in catalog in Textus Roffensis, Rochester Cathedral Library Ms. A.3.5, fol. 230r; more certain reference in 1202 library catalog in British Library Ms. Royal 5 B.XII, fol. 2r];  Leon Gruel, Paris, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown, no. 1138];  Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1130 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.18.161V",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.18.161V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.18.161V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.18.161V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 38.5,
            "height": 28.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 15 3/16 x W: 11 1/8 in. (38.5 x 28.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "English",
    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "ink and pigments on cream-colored parchment of medium thickness",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6197"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2339"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.18.161V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "1490bad63929e822"
}