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    "localId": "24448",
    "label": "Book of Hours in Dutch",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.188"
}

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    "id": "24448",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.188",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Book of Hours in Dutch",
    "description": "This illuminated Book of Hours was produced in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It is written in the Netherlandish translation of Geert Grote. Although lacking in full-page miniatures, the manuscript contains eighteen historiated initials by the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg with ornamental initials and decoration throughout.",
    "provenance": "Made for anonymous patrons in the second quarter of the 15th century; Melchior Parsoens [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ink signature, outer margin, fol. 4r]; Gruel and Engelmann, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 94, bookplate, front pastedown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 9, 1903, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "second quarter 15th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.188",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.188.binding_TopExt_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.188.binding_TopExt_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.4,
            "height": 10.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 11/16 x W: 4 in. (14.4 x 10.2 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Dutch",
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    "med": "ink and pigments on thin to medium cream parchment with a fine nap surface covered with red-brown velvet over millboard, sewn on five recessed cords; all edges gilt",
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": [
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