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    "localId": "88708",
    "label": "Binding from Corvey Gospel fragment",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.751.binding"
}

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    "id": "88708",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.751.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Corvey Gospel fragment",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. Modern English crushed dark blue morocco by W.H. Smith and Son, first half of the twentieth century; gold tooled outer fillet and lettering, which read \"EVANGELIORUM FRAGMENTA MS. SAEC. IX;\" inside: wide borders of morocco with triple fillet gold tooled; vellum doublure and flyleaves.",
    "provenance": "Written in the Monastery of Corvey on the Weser River in Germany ca. 940-975, during the reign of Otto I [based on style and paleography]; [Originally part of a Gospel Book belonging to the Chapter Library of the Cathedral of Rheims until the French Revolution, now Ms. 10 in the Rheims Municipal Library]; Sir Thomas Phillips, London, ca. 1855 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Ms. 14122, noted on bottom of fol. 1r]; A. Chester Beatty, December 1920, acquired privately from Phillips collection; Walters Art Museum, October 1952, by purchase [from Mrs. Chester Beatty through Maggs Brothers].",
    "date": "ca. 950-975 (Ottonian)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.751.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Manuscripts & Rare Books",
        "bindings"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31.2,
            "height": 24.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 5/16 x W: 9 1/2 in. (31.2 x 24.2 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Ottonian",
    "med": "modern English crushed dark blue morocco, gold tooled outer fillet and lettering, wide borders of morocco with triple fillet gold tooled; vellum doublure and flyleaves",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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