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    "localId": "83418",
    "label": "Binding from Collection of Poems (Divan)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.632.binding"
}

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    "id": "83418",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.632.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Collection of Poems (Divan)",
    "description": "This non-original binding from Walters manuscript W.632 probably dates to the late 11th century AH/AD 17th or12th century AH/AD 18th. The binding is red leather with central panels on the boards and the flap filled with gold-brocaded Safavid silk.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad Habib [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression on fol. 2b and  invocation: ya kabikaj on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 11th century AH/AD 17th-12th century AH/AD 18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.632.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20,
            "height": 11
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 7 7/8 x W: 4 5/16 in. (20 x 11 cm)"
}

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    "med": "boards covered with red leather with gold-brocaded silk",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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