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    "localId": "4172",
    "label": "Story of St. Olaf",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.34.42R"
}

{
    "id": "4172",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.34.42R",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Story of St. Olaf",
    "provenance": "Made in East Anglia, England, mid-13th century; Carrow Priory, Norwich, 15th century [recorded in a 14th or 15th century inscription on fol. 1r];  John Baptist, 3rd Lord Caryll (1716-1780) [his bookplate recorded in 1902, but is no longer extant] [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  George Galway Mills, before 1800 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Mills Sale, London, February 24, 1800;  Reverend David T. Powell, first half 19th century [mode of acquisition unknown];  Powell Sale, London, July 31, 1848;  4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) [Appendix no. XXXIII, his bookplate] [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Henry Yates Thompson, 1899 [his bookplate] [mode of acquisition unknown];  Yates Thompson Sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 23 March 1920, [no. 34]; Quaritch, 1920, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1920, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1250 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.34.42R",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.7,
            "height": 17.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 9 3/4 × W: 6 15/16 in. (24.7 × 17.6 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on medium-weight cream-colored parchment; slightly heavier-weight parchment used for full-page miniatures",
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    ],
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        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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