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    "localId": "88688",
    "label": "Decorated initial \"\"Q\"\"",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.30.13V"
}

{
    "id": "88688",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.30.13V",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Decorated initial \"\"Q\"\"",
    "provenance": "Made in Austria in the second half 12th century; Petrus de Anaso, Weyer, ca. 1500, [mode of acquisition unknown, inscription partially erased on front pastedown reading, \"\"Anno etc. 30. Liber dom.[?] Petri de Anaso dominum socio in hospitai Wienn[ensi]\"\"]; Johannus Hofulner(?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [sixteenth-century inscription on front pastedown reading, \"\"Hic libellus est Joh[annis] hofulner[?] de Wey[er]\"\"]; Abbey of Seitentetten, by early 20th century, [mode of acquisition unknown, seen by Hanns Swarzenski there]; Jacques Rosenthal, by 1928, cat. 90, no. 139 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Leo S. Olschki, after 1928 [mode of acquisition unknown, bookplate on front pastedown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore,  before 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "2nd half 12th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.30.13V",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.30.13V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.30.13V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.30.13V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25.8,
            "height": 18.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 3/16 x W: 7 3/16 in. (25.8 x 18.2 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "ink and pigments on medium to very thick parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "31581"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED",
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.30.13V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "9945af50926f9d7c"
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