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    "localId": "78323",
    "label": "Binding from Book on Navigation",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.658.binding"
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Book on Navigation",
    "description": "This later binding from Walters manuscript W.658 is composed of larger size boards and has a flap. The binding  has a central panel and side panels richly decorated and brushed over with gilt, doublures of red leather with a central lobed oval, and corner pieces in the shape of a dentelle, with filigree work.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "n.d.",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.658.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 34,
            "height": 24
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 13 3/8 x W: 9 7/16 in. (34 x 24 cm); H open in cradle: 14 1/8 x W: 25 13/16 x D: 5 13/16 in. (35.8 x 65.5 x 14.7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "boards covered with red leather with gilt",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
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