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    "localId": "88841",
    "label": "Decorated initial \"\"B\"\" (Bernardus)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.71.1V"
}

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    "id": "88841",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.71.1V",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Decorated initial \"\"B\"\" (Bernardus)",
    "provenance": "Cistercian abbey of Himmerode (in the diocese of Trier throughout the medieval period until 1802-1803) [thirteenth-century (?) inscription in top margin of fol. 1r reading \"\"Liber fratrem monachorum sancte marie in hemenrode ordinis cisterciensis\"\" with shelf mark B.viii in lower margin; fols. 71v and 139r with same inscription in a second, fourteenth-century(?) hand, reading \"\"Liber monachorum Sancte Marie in himerode ordinis cisterciensis trevirensis dioces\"\"]; Josef von Görres collection, Germany, 1802/3-1902 [nineteenth-century library number N.93 in top margin of fol. 1r]; Görres collection sale, Munich, 1902, Catal.libr.mss. lot 60, p. 12 ; Léon Gruel and Engelmann collection, Paris, 1902-1903 (bookplate no. 125); Henry Walters, Baltimore,  June 9, 1903, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 12th-early 13th century (Romanesque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.71.1V",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 32,
            "height": 22.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 5/8 x W: 8 13/16 in. (32 x 22.4 cm)"
}

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    "med": "medium-weight parchment, unevenly finished with hair sides often darker and rougher; heavy wear visible to the lower corners",
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    "exhibition_ids": []
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