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    "localId": "88765",
    "label": "Binding from Cologne Psalter-Hours",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.41.binding"
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    "id": "88765",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.41.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Cologne Psalter-Hours",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. Sixteenth- or seventeenth-century boards (possibly beech) re-covered in the nineteenth century with now worn red velvet, probably by Gruel; eighteenth- or nineteenth-century clasps, crudely reattached.",
    "provenance": "Made for Franciscan community, Cologne [Calendar and litany contain numerous Franciscan saints, including the Translation of St. Francis, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Clara, and the Birth of St. Francis];  Germany [rubric on fol. 257r in German]; Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 1128, Gruel bookplate inside upper board];  Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 13th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.41.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.9,
            "height": 7.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 5/16 x W: 3 1/16 in. (10.9 x 7.7 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "16th or 17th century boards (possibly beech) re-covered in the nineteenth century with now worn red velvet, probably by Gruel; 18th or 19th century clasps",
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        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
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