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    "localId": "80124",
    "label": "Binding from Prayer Book",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.578.binding"
}

{
    "id": "80124",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.578.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Prayer Book",
    "description": "This binding from Walters manuscript W.578 is not contemporary with the textblock. It dates to the late 11th century AH/AD 17th or 12th century AH/AD 18th and is composed of gold-sprinkled pink paper over pasteboard. The binding has a flap, misbound on wrong side and a central lobed medallion in gold-tooled black goatskin a with floral design. There is a matching design on the flap. The pastedowns are of marbled paper.",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman Khan III, son of Mustafa II (reigned 1168-1171 AH/AD 1754-1757) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [waqf entry in the name of the Sultan signed by Ibrahim Hanif, inspector of awqaf on fol. 2a and seals of the Sultan and the inspector erased]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 11th century AH/AD 17th-12th century AH/AD 18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.578.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.578.binding_ClsdTop_DD_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.578.binding_ClsdTop_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31.5,
            "height": 21.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 12 3/8 x W: 8 7/16 in. (31.5 x 21.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "pasteboard covered with gold-sprinkled pink paper with gold-tooled goatskin",
    "creator_ids": [
        "17248"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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