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    "localId": "83322",
    "label": "Binding from Three Collections of Poetry",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.657.binding"
}

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    "id": "83322",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.657.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Three Collections of Poetry",
    "description": "This non-original, red leather binding from Walters manuscript W.657 has a central medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces (with no flap). The binding has gold-painted arabesque decoration. It was re-bound and restored by a bookbinder of Tabriz, Khwand Mulla Mahdi Sahhaf-i Tabrizi (see note, signed and dated 1295 AH/AD 1878 on front flyleaf iia).",
    "provenance": "Mundir [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression with motton on fol. 280b]; Khwand Mulla Mahdi Sahhaf-i Tabrizi, Tabriz, 1295 AH/AD 1878 [mode of acquisition unknown] [note regarding re-binding and restoration of this volume by the bookbinder on front flyleaf iia]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1295 AH/AD 1878",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.657.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28,
            "height": 19
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 11 x W: 7 1/2 in. (28 x 19 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic; Persian",
    "med": "red leather with gold",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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