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{
    "localId": "33400",
    "label": "Book of Hours",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.196"
}

{
    "id": "33400",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.196",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Book of Hours",
    "description": "This Book of Hours illuminated ca. 1470 contains stunning examples of full-page miniatures in the style of Willem Vrelant, most likely originating in Bruges. Given that several prayer cycles contain indications of a female suppliant, as well as a majority female saints in the litany, the book was either owned or co-owned by a woman. The artist or artists have chosen to alternate between color and near-grisaille miniatures throughout the text and the calendar, making for a strikingly varied program of images.",
    "provenance": "Likely owned by Eleanor of Portugal (1458-1525, wife of John II) [1]. Clerical ownership, Santiago, ca. 1600 [2]. Léon Gruel, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century [3]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Ownership inscription on front pastedown: Este libro foi da rainha/dona lianor nao se po/ de dar de fora so pe/na de escommunhao[2] Inscription added on front pastedown by 1600: Fr. Luis de S[an]tiago[3] Modern pencil inscriptions on front pastedown read \"\"Add. Ms. 12\"\" and \"\"N 815\"\"; same numbers occur on Gruel's handwritten sales slip",
    "date": "ca. 1470",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.196",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.196_Binding_DD_000001_sap.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.196_Binding_DD_000001_sap.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.196_Binding_DD_000001_sap.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19.6,
            "height": 12.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 7 11/16 × W: 5 in. (19.6 × 12.7 cm); Closed H: 7 11/16 × 5 × 2 7/16 in. (19.6 × 12.7 × 6.2 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "International Gothic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on parchment bound between boards covered with leather",
    "creator_ids": [
        "8628",
        "8629",
        "6505"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "107",
        "721",
        "87",
        "47"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.196_DD_000008_sap.jpg",
    "mediaId": "e57d7bcbb83b8372"
}