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    "localId": "79978",
    "label": "Binding from Gloss on a Commentary on the Qur'an",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.584.binding"
}

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    "id": "79978",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.584.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Gloss on a Commentary on the Qur'an",
    "description": "This dark brown leather binding from Walters manuscript W.584 has a damaged, backwards flap with a central lobed oval with pendants and cornerpieces with arabesque designs on a gold ground. The doublures of red leather have a central geometric design. The binding is not original to the manuscript.",
    "provenance": "'Ali [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Ex libiris (min kutub) on fol. 1a]; Vizier al-Shahid 'Ali Pasha, 1130 AH/AD 1717 [mode of acquisition unknown] [waqf seal on fol. 1a with the original shelf mark, 191, beneath. Same impression on fols. 1b, 2a, 156b];  Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "n.d. (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.584.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.584.binding_TopInt_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21,
            "height": 13
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 8 1/4 x W: 5 1/8 in. (21 x 13 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "dark-brown leather with gold and red leather doublures",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2431"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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