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    "localId": "80129",
    "label": "Binding from Selection of Poems",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.641.binding"
}

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    "id": "80129",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.641.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Selection of Poems",
    "description": "This black leather binding, which is original to the manuscript, Walters W.641, has a stamped central lobed oval, pendants, and cornerpieces, all covered with cloudband motifs.The red doublure, also original to the manuscript, is decorated with a central lobed oval, pendants, and cornerpieces decorated with filigree work on a blue ground. A strip of marbled paper is present at the hinge.",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman (reigned 1027 AH/AD 1618-1031 AH/AD 1622) (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [erased waqf-seal and waqf-registration statement probably belonging to the Sultan on folio 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "899 AH/AD 1493-1494 (Timurid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.641.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17,
            "height": 11.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 6 11/16 x W: 4 1/2 in. (17 x 11.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic; Persian",
    "dynasty": "Timurid Dynasty",
    "med": "black leather",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2730"
    ]
}

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