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{
    "localId": "81405",
    "label": "Binding from Qur'an",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.557.binding"
}

{
    "id": "81405",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.557.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Qur'an",
    "description": "This dentelle-style brown goatskin binding from Walters manuscript W.557 has a central lobed medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces and is attributable to the 10th century AH/AD 16th. The binding is not contemporary with the textblock.",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman Khan ibn Mustafá Khan (reigned 1168 AH/AD 1754-1171 AH/AD 1757) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Erased seal of Sultan 'Uthman Khan ibn Mustafá Khan and a waqf inscription by Ibrahim Hanif and his seal (fol. 1a)]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1897 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Inscription in pencil: H(enry) W(alters) May 1897 direct from Constantinople (front flyleaf ia)]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "10th century AH/AD 16th century (?)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.557.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.557.binding_Bot_DD_tail.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.557.binding_Bot_DD_tail.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.557.binding_Bot_DD_tail.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 34.5,
            "height": 20.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 13 9/16 x W: 8 1/16 in. (34.5 x 20.5 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "brown goatskin",
    "creator_ids": [
        "17248"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.557.binding_Fnt_DD_spine.jpg",
    "mediaId": "b0310e4b2d130dd3"
}