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    "localId": "88785",
    "label": "Binding from Bible",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.805.binding"
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    "id": "88785",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Bible",
    "description": "The binding is original. Blind-stamped tanned leather over heavy wooden boards; sewn in six bands; boards ruled with a frame and diaper pattern and stamped with floral tools, as well as lozenge-shaped rosettes, lilies, and quatrefoils; nine (of the original ten) elaborate, pierced metal fittings for stubs of clasps and catches present (clasps themselves lacking); extensively rebacked.",
    "provenance": "Made for monastic use, probably Cistercian or Carthusian, in Bohemia (?) finished on February 2, 1507; Unknown monastic owner, 18th century [\"\"Nr. 78\"\" written on front pastedown]; Sale, Sotheby's, London, November 9, 1931, [lot 216, to Marks (?)]; E. Dawson, Los Angeles [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Otto Ege, Cleveland, 1932, by purchase; Sale, Sotheby's London, December 11, 1984, no. 54; Walters Art Museum, 1984, by purchase.",
    "date": "1507",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.805.binding",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 42.3,
            "height": 29.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 16 5/8 x W: 11 11/16 in. (42.3 x 29.7 cm)"
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