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{
    "localId": "81877",
    "label": "Binding from Collection of Poems (Divan)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.628.binding"
}

{
    "id": "81877",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.628.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Collection of Poems (Divan)",
    "description": "This non-original binding from Walters manuscript W.628 may be attributable to late 12th-century AH/AD 18th or 13th-century AH/AD 19th Turkey. The binding is composed of red leather with  scalloped medallion and has gold-tooled decoration and borders.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Ex libris on upper board inside]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 12th century AH/AD 18th century-13th century AH/AD 19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.628.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.628.binding_TopExtClsd_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.628.binding_TopExtClsd_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21.5,
            "height": 13.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 8 7/16 x W: 5 5/16 in. (21.5 x 13.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "red leather with gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2431"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2289"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.628.binding_BotExtOpn_DD_FlapOpen.jpg",
    "mediaId": "5186139928c3ad03"
}