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    "localId": "91134",
    "label": "Binding from Carrow Psalter",
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    "id": "91134",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.34.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Carrow Psalter",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. Henry Yates Thompson had the manuscript rebound in the early twentieth century; limp vellum binding, hair side out with stiff square yapp and green ribbons at fore edge; spine inscribed in gold tooled letters \"Psalter of the Monastery of Carehow near Norwich circa A.D. 1245.\"",
    "provenance": "Made in East Anglia, England, mid-13th century; Carrow Priory, Norwich, 15th century [recorded in a 14th or 15th century inscription on fol. 1r];  John Baptist, 3rd Lord Caryll (1716-1780) [his bookplate recorded in 1902, but is no longer extant] [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  George Galway Mills, before 1800 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Mills Sale, London, February 24, 1800;  Reverend David T. Powell, first half 19th century [mode of acquisition unknown];  Powell Sale, London, July 31, 1848;  4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) [Appendix no. XXXIII, his bookplate] [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Henry Yates Thompson, 1899 [his bookplate] [mode of acquisition unknown];  Yates Thompson Sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 23 March 1920, [no. 34]; Quaritch, 1920, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1920, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1250 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.34.binding",
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    "language": "en",
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        "folios (leaves)"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.5,
            "height": 17.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "9 5/8 x 6 7/8 in. (24.5 x 17.5 cm)"
}

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