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    "localId": "34615",
    "label": "Leaf from Ethiopian Gospels",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.850.154R"
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    "id": "34615",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.850.154R",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Leaf from Ethiopian Gospels",
    "provenance": "Church, Mädhane Aläm at Mäjate, Ethiopia, 1892-1893 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, France, prior to 1973 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Sam Fogg, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1998, by purchase.",
    "date": "first half of the 16th century (Stephanite)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.850.154R",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "width": 30.2,
            "height": 25
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 7/8 x W: 9 13/16 in. (30.2 x 25 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Christian Highland Ethiopian",
    "style": "Gunda Gunde",
    "med": "ink and pigments on heavy, thick parchment",
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    ],
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    ]
}

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