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    "localId": "81307",
    "label": "Binding from Five Poems (Quintet)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.609.binding"
}

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    "id": "81307",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.609.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Five Poems (Quintet)",
    "description": "This brown leather binding from Walters manuscript W.609 has a stamped center and side panels brushed with gold, and no flap. The binding has an inscription in the upper and lower rectangles, and doublures with blue dentelle-style filigree work. The binding may be original to the manuscript but was repaired at a later stage in the codex's history.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad Asharf ibn Muhammad Khatam al-Husayni, 1173 AH/AD 1759-1760 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression on fols. 1a and 401a]; Husayn …[?], 1308 AH/AD 1890-1891 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership statement on fol. 1b]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "922 AH/AD 1516 (?) (Safavid (?))",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.609.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 29,
            "height": 17.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 11 7/16 x W: 6 7/8 in. (29 x 17.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty (?)",
    "med": "brown leather with gold",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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        "MIS",
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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