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    "localId": "87507",
    "label": "Binding for Rochester New Testament",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "87507",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding for Rochester New Testament",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. New binding made of alum-processed pigskin and quarter-sawn oak boards by Abigail Quandt, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 1986; previous binding probably by Leon Gruel, early 20th century, constructed of five recessed cords laced into heavy millboards covered in red silk; manuscript rebound two or three times since the twelfth century.",
    "provenance": "Priory scriptorium of Rochester Cathedral, England, 12th century [possible reference in catalog in Textus Roffensis, Rochester Cathedral Library Ms. A.3.5, fol. 230r; more certain reference in 1202 library catalog in British Library Ms. Royal 5 B.XII, fol. 2r];  Leon Gruel, Paris, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown, no. 1138];  Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1986 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.18.binding",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 38.5,
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    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 15 3/16 x W: 11 1/8 in. (38.5 x 28.3 cm)"
}

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