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    "localId": "91092",
    "label": "Binding from Les livres du gouvernement des roys et des princes",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.144.binding"
}

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    "id": "91092",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.144.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Les livres du gouvernement des roys et des princes",
    "provenance": "Copied in England (probably London), ca. 1300-1325; Monastery of Sancti Gualtheri (cropped inscription with 16 November 1463 date, fol. 121r), [mode of acquisition unknown]; Ebenezer Mussel, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; His sale, London, 30 May 1766, no. 90 [inscription fol. 121r]; William Bayntum, London, 30 May 1766, by purchase; His sale, London, 4 June 1787; John Louis Goldsmid (his arms on binding), London, 4 June 1787, by purchase; Sale, Christie's, London, 11 December 1815, no. 293, to n. 69 bis in a French catalogue (ca. 1840); [Examined by Paulin Paris (notes on fol. b)]; Joseph Barrois collection (no. 22) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Fourth Earl of Ashburnham, London, 1849, by purchase [from Joseph Barrois]; His sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 June 1901, no. 241; C. Fairfax Murray, 1901-before 1912, by purchase; L. Rosenthal, 1912 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Leon Gruel, Paris, after 1912 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931, by purchase from Leon Gruel; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[Other earlier ownership marks: no. 9 in red on back of first flyleaf, no. 37 on back flyleaf;  \"\"John Nele\"\" on front flyleaf.]",
    "date": "ca. 1815",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.144.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "bindings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 9,
    "pageCount": 9,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 30,
            "height": 20
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 11 13/16 x W: 7 7/8 in. (30 x 20 cm)"
}

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    "med": "brown calf leather with later-blocked John Louis Goldsmid arms over millboard, by Faulkner ca. 1815, rebacked; twentieth-century blue marbled paper pastedowns and brown ribbon",
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