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    "localId": "87622",
    "label": "Binding for Gospel Lectionary",
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    "id": "87622",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding for Gospel Lectionary",
    "description": "Binding is original and dates to the end of the sixteenth century; pasted down by Liz Bentzel in May 1935; patterned red silk over squared wooden boards; spine raised with six bands; traces of now lost metal attachments and clasps; pastedowns of yellow silk.",
    "provenance": "Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, ca. 1598, by gift; Léon Gruel, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931.",
    "date": "1594-1596 (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.535.binding",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
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            "width": 39.4,
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 15 1/2 x W: 10 5/8 in. (39.4 x 27 cm)"
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