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    "localId": "81415",
    "label": "Binding from Three Short Sufi Works",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.643.binding"
}

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    "id": "81415",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.643.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Three Short Sufi Works",
    "description": "This binding from Walters manuscript W.643 is not contemporary with the textblock. It is composed of dark brown leather (with a flap) attached backwards. The binding has a gold-brushed panel-stamped design with doublures with filigree work on a multi-colored ground of blue, orange, pink, and green.",
    "provenance": "Alllah Muhammad 'Ali, 1030 AH/AD 1620-1621 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Round seal in the center of fol. 1a]; Unknown owner, 22 Jum. II 1105 AH/AD 1694 [mode of acquisition unknown] [a note on fol. 1a]; Mahmud, 1115 AH/AD 1703-1704 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Square seal with name Mahmud (partially erased) and an inscription with the date on fol. 1a]; Husayn Shah Ghulami, Dhu al-Qa'dah 1127 AH/AD 1715 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Octagonal seal with name underneath an inscription giving the date on fol. 1a]; Husayn Qavam (?), Daftar, 1301 AH/AD 1883-1884 [mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership statement on fol. 2a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "n.d.",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.643.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.5,
            "height": 13
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 8 7/8 x W: 5 1/8 in. (22.5 x 13.0 cm)"
}

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    "med": "dark brown leather with gold doblures on a multi-colored ground",
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    ],
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        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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