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{
    "localId": "81823",
    "label": "Binding from Work on the Duties of Muslims Towards the Prophet Muhammad with an Account of His Life",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.580.binding"
}

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    "id": "81823",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.580.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Work on the Duties of Muslims Towards the Prophet Muhammad with an Account of His Life",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.580 is bound in this reddish-brown goatskin binding with gold-tooled frame and central medallion of geometric design with two pendants. The binding was produced in the Maghreb in the 12th century AH/AD 18th.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "12th century AH/AD 18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.580.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27,
            "height": 20
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 10 5/8 x W: 7 7/8 in. (27.0 x 20.0 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "reddish-brown gold-tooled goatskin",
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ]
}

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}