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{
    "localId": "79629",
    "label": "Binding from Qur'an",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.561.binding"
}

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    "id": "79629",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.561.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Qur'an",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.561 is bound in a light brown goatskin binding, contemporary with the manuscript. The binding is decorated with blind- and gold-tooled geometric designs. There are traces of blue pigment.",
    "provenance": "Mamluk Amir Aytimish (Aytmish) [al-Bajasi] (died 802 AH/AD 1400), Cairo [date of acquisition unknown], by commission; Library of the Madrasah [later known as al-Madrasah al-Aytimishiyah], Bab al-Wazir, Cairo [date of acquistion unknown], by bequest [bequest (waqf) statement in the name of the Mamluk Amir Aytimish on folio 3a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th quarter 8th century AH/AD 14th century (Mamluk)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.561.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 37,
            "height": 26.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 14 9/16 x W: 10 7/16 in. (37 x 26.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Mamluk Dynasty",
    "med": "light brown goatskin with gold and traces of blue pigment",
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    ],
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        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "2730"
    ]
}

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