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{
    "localId": "88691",
    "label": "Binding from Gloss on The lamentations of Jeremiah",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.30.binding"
}

{
    "id": "88691",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.30.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Gloss on The lamentations of Jeremiah",
    "description": "Binding is original. Plain alum-tawed leather over oak(?) boards; center fore-edge strap meant to fasten to pin on upper board missing; sewn on three alum-tawed straps; endbands of a single rolled alum-tawed core, worked with similar thread to main sewing; double blind lines on each band; saltire cross formed from two double lines on upper board; five small steel studs once on each board, with a six-petaled impression remaining from each of them.",
    "provenance": "Made in Austria in the second half 12th century; Petrus de Anaso, Weyer, ca. 1500, [mode of acquisition unknown, inscription partially erased on front pastedown reading, \"\"Anno etc. 30. Liber dom.[?] Petri de Anaso dominum socio in hospitai Wienn[ensi]\"\"]; Johannus Hofulner(?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [sixteenth-century inscription on front pastedown reading, \"\"Hic libellus est Joh[annis] hofulner[?] de Wey[er]\"\"]; Abbey of Seitentetten, by early 20th century, [mode of acquisition unknown, seen by Hanns Swarzenski there]; Jacques Rosenthal, by 1928, cat. 90, no. 139 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Leo S. Olschki, after 1928 [mode of acquisition unknown, bookplate on front pastedown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore,  before 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "2nd half 12th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.30.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.30.binding_Ext_DD_Spine.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.30.binding_Ext_DD_Spine.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25.8,
            "height": 18.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 3/16 x W: 7 3/16 in. (25.8 x 18.2 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "plain alum-tawed leather over oak(?) boards",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6521"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED",
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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