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    "localId": "88533",
    "label": "Binding from Book of Hours",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.168.binding"
}

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    "id": "88533",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.168.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Book of Hours",
    "description": "Binding is original. Bound in fifteenth-century Flanders (Bruges); black calfskin covering beech boards; blind panel-stamping laid out in two panels on both boards, each panel displaying two vine-scrolls in mirror image of each other containing a bird, a rabbit couchant, a cock, a deer couchant, and a pelican in piety; both panels surrounded by the inscription \"Ora pro nobis sancta / Dei genitrix ut / digni efficamur promis / sione Xpristi\"; between panels a smaller compartment composed of three stamps displaying a wivern couchant, St. Margaret emerging from the dragon, and a gryphon rampant; all edges gilt;  indications of a central fastening, now a pair of late Gothic brass catch-and-strap clasps hinging from lower board.",
    "provenance": "Libraire Morgand, number 26084, 19th century; Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1430-1435, with additions ca. 1460",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.168.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.168.binding_BotExt_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.168.binding_BotExt_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 16,
            "height": 11.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 5/16 x W: 4 1/2 in. (16 x 11.4 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Dutch",
    "style": "International Gothic",
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        "8629"
    ],
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        "MSS"
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.168.binding_TopExt_DD.jpg",
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