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    "localId": "32674",
    "label": "Hymnal with Commentary",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.32"
}

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    "id": "32674",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.32",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Hymnal with Commentary",
    "description": "This manuscript, created in the twelfth century, contains eighty-one early Christian hymns, accompanied by a commentary supposedly written by St. Hilarius. The margins of the first folios of the manuscript are illuminated with five bishops, likely meant to represent five famous hymn-writers: Hilarius, Ambrose, Prudentius, Sedulius, and Gregory. Due to extreme flaking of the text and pigments, the manuscript could not be digitized at this time.",
    "provenance": "Spain, ca. 1130-1150; Spain, nineteenth century (?) [stamp on verso of front flyleaf, partially effaced, but with crown visible and inscription \"\"Enagenado por\"\"; list of hymns with notes in Spanish on fols. 73r-76v]; Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1130-1150 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.32",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.32_Fnt_DD_2013.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21,
            "height": 14
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 8 1/4 x W: 5 1/2 in. (21 x 14 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "ink and pigments on parchment covered with non-original red velvet binding",
    "creator_ids": [],
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        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "314"
    ]
}

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