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    "localId": "24906",
    "label": "Decorated Text Page",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.751.4V"
}

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    "id": "24906",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.751.4V",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Decorated Text Page",
    "provenance": "Written in the Monastery of Corvey on the Weser River in Germany ca. 940-975, during the reign of Otto I [based on style and paleography]; [Originally part of a Gospel Book belonging to the Chapter Library of the Cathedral of Rheims until the French Revolution, now Ms. 10 in the Rheims Municipal Library]; Sir Thomas Phillips, London, ca. 1855 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Ms. 14122, noted on bottom of fol. 1r]; A. Chester Beatty, December 1920, acquired privately from Phillips collection; Walters Art Museum, October 1952, by purchase [from Mrs. Chester Beatty through Maggs Brothers].",
    "date": "ca. 950-975 (Ottonian)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.751.4V",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "folios (leaves)"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31.2,
            "height": 24.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 5/16 x W: 9 1/2 in. (31.2 x 24.2 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Ottonian",
    "med": "ink and pigments on thick parchment, with suede surface on flesh side",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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