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    "localId": "88687",
    "label": "Binding from Melk Missal",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.33.binding"
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    "id": "88687",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.33.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Melk Missal",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. Austrian fifteenth-century beech boards covered with brown calfskin stamped with inscribed scrolls containing German poetic inscriptions; Clarkson notes in the Walters file that letters are raised and therefore cannot have been directly impressed with movable type as suggested by Miner and Goldschmidt; much restored; pastedowns of manuscript waste: front pastedown in twelfth-century Gothic bookhand (1 Chronicles, 2:33-43), back pastedown in fifteenth-century German cursive hybrid bookhand (breviary).",
    "provenance": "Benedictine abbey of Melk or Seitenstetten [patron saints of Melk - Peter and Paul, and Cholomannus (fol. 212r), liturgy for use in Melk diocese] [made for the abbey];  [textual additions and corrections in 13th-15th century hands];  [rear pastedown is 15th-century breviary folio];  Seitenstetten Stiftsbibliothek, 1913 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Ms. 127, described in 1913 Swarzenski publication];  Jacques Rosenthal [bookplate on inside of upper binding] [cat. 90, 1928 no. 167];  Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "15th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.33.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 8,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26.5,
            "height": 17
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Page H: 10 7/16 x W: 6 11/16 in. (26.5 x 17 cm)"
}

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    "med": "Austrian fifteenth-century beech boards covered with brown calfskin stamped with inscribed scrolls containing German poetic inscriptions",
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    "exhibition_ids": []
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