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Source Description
Walters manuscript W.579 is bound in a brown leather binding (with a flap). The binding is decorated with interconnected gold-tooled lobed medallions and discs with vine and floral motifs. The binding also includes an inner frame with a vine and scroll motif, a gold-tooled outer frame, and doublures with a central lobed oval and corner pendants with filigree decoration on a blue ground.
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Document identity
localId
79972
label
Binding from Prayer Book
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obj
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object
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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79972
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Binding from Prayer Book
description
Walters manuscript W.579 is bound in a brown leather binding (with a flap). The binding is decorated with interconnected gold-tooled lobed medallions and discs with vine and floral motifs. The binding also includes an inner frame with a vine and scroll motif, a gold-tooled outer frame, and doublures with a central lobed oval and corner pendants with filigree decoration on a blue ground.
provenance
Vizier al-Shahid 'Ali Pasha, ca. 1130 AH/AD 1717 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown] [waqf-seal impression of the Vizier dated 1130 AH/AD 1717 with the original shelf mark 1414 on fols. 2a, 2b, and 3a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
941 AH/AD 1534
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
bindings
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
23.5
height
16.5
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 9 1/4 x W: 6 1/2 in. (23.5 x 16.5 cm)
Source extras
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Islamic
med
gold-tooled brown leather
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6747
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MSS
ISL
MIS
exhibition_ids
2730
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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921da9841703df9f