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    "localId": "8341",
    "label": "Moses Receiving the Law",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.530.B"
}

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    "id": "8341",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.530.B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Moses Receiving the Law",
    "description": "This miniature once formed part of a psalter where it faced the beginning of Psalm 77 (78), which in Byzantine usage opened the second half of the Psalms. It is a cutting from a volume on Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery MS 761. The latter manuscript can be dated precisely: the table on its fols. 3r-4v gives the dates of Easter for the years 6896-6919 (as calculated from the Creation of the world). The first of these corresponds to 1087-1088 CE and must be the year when the psalter was made.",
    "provenance": "[Folio 111 in Mount Athos, Vatopedi MS 716 (formerly MS 609)]; Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1087-88",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.530.B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Manuscripts & Rare Books",
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11.7,
            "height": 9.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 4 5/8 x W: 3 9/16 in. (11.7 x 9.1 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Byzantine; Christian",
    "style": "Byzantine",
    "med": "ink and pigments on high quality parchment",
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    ],
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        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
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        "63",
        "2289"
    ]
}

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