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    "localId": "20912",
    "label": "Book of Hours",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.93"
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    "id": "20912",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.93",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Book of Hours",
    "provenance": "Châlons-sur-Marne, ca. 1300-1325; possible original ownership by member of de Bar family (heraldic shield, fol. 2v, Pisces sign; soldier & male head depicted on fols. 133r and 21r perhaps original owner); references to both the d'Aspremont family of Namur and Lorraine and the de Bar family of Lorraine are in calendar, coat-of-arms on fol. 2v, and motto by member of Aspremont family, 17th century, fol. 7v: 'post morten [sic for 'mortem'] spero uitan [sic for 'uitam']/ I Apremont'; heraldic devices, some perhaps pseudo-heraldic, including two showing respectively one and four gold fleur-de-lis on blue ground, another showing gold crown on blue ground, 18th century (?), on fol. 1r, also copied in pencil on front pastedown and labeled '...(?) Aspremont', 19th/20th century; erased library stamp in lower margin, fol. 1r; Earl of Ashburnham, entry on front pastedown: 'A/ Catal. App./No. 53'; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 May 1899, no. 170; to Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London; Damascène Morgand, Paris bookseller, Bull. 48 (November 1899), no. 37262; penciled notation on fol. a, 19th/20th century: 'rapporté de Milan par François I'; Léon Gruel, Paris, Gruel and Engelmann bookplate inscribed 'No. 80'; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899-1931, by purchase from Gruel.",
    "date": "14th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.93",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12,
            "height": 10
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 4 3/4 x 3 15/16 in. (12 x 10 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Gothic",
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