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    "localId": "87628",
    "label": "Binding for Ethiopian Gospels",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.836.binding"
}

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    "id": "87628",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.836.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding for Ethiopian Gospels",
    "description": "Binding is non-original, bound in Tegray, Ethiopia.",
    "provenance": "Copied by Matre Krestos in Northern Ethiopia, early fourteenth century; Abba Arkä Sellus [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Church of Mary of Seku [date of acquisition unknown] by gift; Church of St. George at Dabra Ma'ar, before 1973 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Robert and Nancy Nooter Collection [Nooter 20.15], Washington, D.C. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1996, by purchase.",
    "date": "early 14th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.836.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.836.binding_BotExt_DD_LowerBoardOutside.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26.7,
            "height": 17,
            "depth": 11.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 10 1/2 x 6 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (26.7 x 17 x 11.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Christian Highland Ethiopian",
    "style": "Ethiopian",
    "med": "plain wooden boards, broken and stitched, front and back; chain stitching at four points",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6264"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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