Pyx
All Christians in the Middle Ages considered the bread sanctified during the Mass to be the actual body of Christ. The repeated monogram IHS (for the medieval Latin Ihesus, "Jesus") on this box attests to this belief. Known as pyxes, such boxes were used by the faithful to rec...
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26246
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object
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normalized
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Raoul Heilbronner, Paris [date of acqusition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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1
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import
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_53.11_Fnt_BW_H68.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_53.11_Fnt_BW_H68.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_53.11_Fnt_BW_H68.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.11 |
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