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    "localId": "81606",
    "label": "Binding from Freising Gospels",
    "core": "obj",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Freising Gospels",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. German or French nineteenth-century purple velvet over coarsely woven blue canvas over beech boards, with vestiges of old manuscript pastedowns (boards probably sixteenth-century)",
    "provenance": "Freising, Germany, ca. 865-875; Germany, 19th century; Leon Gruel and Robert Engelmann, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century [mode of acquisition unknown, no.78];  Henry Walters, Baltimore, February 19, 1917 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 7/8 x W: 4 13/16 in. (17.5 x 12.2 cm)"
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