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    "localId": "4866",
    "label": "Leaf from Juvenal's Satires: Foliate Initial S",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.20.1R"
}

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    "id": "4866",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.20.1R",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Leaf from Juvenal's Satires: Foliate Initial S",
    "description": "This twelfth-century copy of Juvenal's Satires includes an early gloss on Books I and II, attributed to William of Conches, which was added early in the life of the manuscript. Additional early glosses on the text by different hands appear throughout.",
    "provenance": "Cathédrale Saint-Pierre at Beauvais, 13th century [1]. Antoine Loisel (1536-1617), Beauvais, 1539. Le Peletier de Rosanbo [also spelled Rosambo] family, 18th or early 19th century [2]. Duchess of Berry, Château de Rosny, Seine-et-Oise, first half 19th century [3]; Duchess of Berry Sale, Bossange and Techener, Paris, 20 February 1837, no. 2419; purchased by Marie-Henry-Adolphe Bossange (1797-1862, pseudonym Nemo), 1837 [4]. Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois of Lille, between 1837 and 1849 [5]; Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois Sale, Paris, 1849; purchased by 4th Earl of Ashburnham, 1849 [6]; Earl of Ashburnham Sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1901, lot 317; purchased by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London, 1901; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.    [1] inscription on fol. 55v, \"\"Officialis curie parisensis capitulo Sancti Petri\"\"; the first three abbreviated words also appear on upper right and lower left of fol. 55r and date to 14th century   [2] first bookplate with arms on the front pastedown  [3] second bookplate with arms on the front pastedown which reads \"\"Bibliothèque de Rosny\"\", referring to the Château de Rosny at Seine-et-Oise  [4] bought for 210 francs  [5] collection no. 129; '129' written on round green leather label at base of spine, crossed out and replaced by '192'  [6] [collection no. 192; '192' written over '129' on label at base of spine",
    "date": "4th quarter 12th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.20.1R",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24,
            "height": 16
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 7/16 x W: 6 5/16 in. (24 x 16 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "ink and pigments on parchment",
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        "8168",
        "33790"
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        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
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