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{
    "localId": "81207",
    "label": "Binding from Commentary on Select Verses of the Qur'an",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.667.binding"
}

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    "id": "81207",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.667.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Commentary on Select Verses of the Qur'an",
    "description": "This binding from Walters manuscript W.667 is contemporary with the textblock. It is composed of dark brown goatskin (with a flap) and has a large central lobed medallion with floral scroll work outlined in gold. The binding has some repairs.",
    "provenance": "Sayyid Burhan al-Din [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal dated 1039 AH, on fol. 1a]; al-Wazir al-Shahid 'Ali Pasha [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [waqf-stamp dated 1130 AH on fols. 1a, 1b, 2a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "11th century AH/AD 17th century (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.667.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.667.binding_Top_DD_upperboardoutside.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.667.binding_Top_DD_upperboardoutside.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.5,
            "height": 13.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 9 5/8 x W: 5 5/16 in. (24.5 x 13.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "dark-brown goatskin with gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6768"
    ],
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        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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