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{
    "localId": "79972",
    "label": "Binding from Prayer Book",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.579.binding"
}

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    "id": "79972",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.579.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Prayer Book",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.579 is bound in a brown leather binding (with a flap). The binding is decorated with interconnected gold-tooled lobed medallions and discs with vine and floral motifs. The binding also includes an inner frame with a vine and scroll motif, a gold-tooled outer frame, and doublures with a central lobed oval and corner pendants with filigree decoration on a blue ground.",
    "provenance": "Vizier al-Shahid 'Ali Pasha, ca. 1130 AH/AD 1717 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown] [waqf-seal impression of the Vizier dated 1130 AH/AD 1717 with the original shelf mark 1414 on fols. 2a, 2b, and 3a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "941 AH/AD 1534",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.579.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.5,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 9 1/4 x W: 6 1/2 in. (23.5 x 16.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "gold-tooled brown leather",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6747"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2730"
    ]
}

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