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    "localId": "16453",
    "label": "Reichenau Gospels",
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    "id": "16453",
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    "title": "Reichenau Gospels",
    "description": "This Gospel Book is believed to come from the Abbey of Reichenau, on Lake Constance, on the basis of its script and illumination. The decoration of the manuscript places it in the so-called Luithar school of Reichenau. Its ornamental motifs compare very closely with those in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm. 4453, and its palette is nearly identical to that in the Reichenau manuscripts of the Bamberg Cathedral Treasury. Gold uncials begin each paragraph as well as the introductory words of each chapter; they are a distinct mark of Reichenau manufacture. The manuscript's text is written in Caroline minuscule. It is paleographically related to Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek Mss. Bibl. 76 and Bibl. 22, and also Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm. 4454. As a whole, it is an excellent example of Ottonian book illumination.",
    "provenance": "Abbey of St. Peter, Reichenau (?), mid-11th century;  German Library, 19th century [date and mode of acquisition unknown, no. 203];  Sir Thomas Brooke, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, after 1854 [acquired from the dealer G.I. Ellis, mode of acquisition unknown];  Ingraham Brooke, Sotheby's March 7, 1913, lot 8;  Leon Gruel, after 1913 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 11th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.7",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.9,
            "height": 18,
            "depth": 7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Closed Book: H: 9 7/16 × W: 7 1/16 × D: 2 3/4 in. (23.9 × 18 × 7 cm)"
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