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    "localId": "88706",
    "label": "Decorated initial \"\"E\"\"",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.13.69R"
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    "id": "88706",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.13.69R",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Decorated initial \"\"E\"\"",
    "provenance": "German monastic institution [ex libris, fol. 2r, \"\"Iste libellus pertinet ad monasterium sanctum in [......]\"\"]; Sir Thomas Phillipps, ca. 1860-1865 [mode of acquisition unknown] [ no. 22130, (fol. 1r) ]; Gruel and Engelmann collection, no. 130, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [bookplate on inside upper board]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 9, 1903, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 12th century (Romanesque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.13.69R",
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    "language": "en",
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "width": 17.5,
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        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 7/8 x W: 5 1/16 in. (17.5 x 12.9 cm)"
}

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