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    "localId": "78137",
    "label": "Binding from Ethiopian Gospels",
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    "title": "Binding from Ethiopian Gospels",
    "description": "Binding is original. Plain wooden boards, broken and stitched, front and back, with remains of leather on the upper board; chain stitching at six stations",
    "provenance": "Monastery at Gunda Gunde, northeastern Ethiopia, early- to mid- sixteenth century; Church of Mädhane Aläm at Mäjate, Ethiopia, 1892-1893 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, France, prior to 1973 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Sam Fogg, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1998, by purchase.",
    "date": "first half of the 16th century",
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