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    "localId": "87625",
    "label": "Binding for Ethiopic Psalter with Canticles, Song of Songs, and two hymns in praise of Mary",
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    "id": "87625",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding for Ethiopic Psalter with Canticles, Song of Songs, and two hymns in praise of Mary",
    "description": "Binding is original. Blind-tooled, stamped goatskin with cross design over wooden boards.",
    "provenance": "Gonderite royal family, before 1769; Wälättä Heywät and Wälättä Kidan [added prayers] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1960, by purchase.",
    "date": "Early 18th century and 19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.768.binding",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31,
            "height": 29
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 3/16 x W: 11 7/16 in. (31 x 29 cm)"
}

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