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    "localId": "88776",
    "label": "Binding from Speculum Virginum",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.72.binding"
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    "id": "88776",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.72.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Speculum Virginum",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. Sixteenth- or seventeenth-century boards covered in red velvet and embellished with a thirteenth-century Limoges champleve enamel crucifix by Leon Gruel in the late nineteenth century.",
    "provenance": "Cistercian abbey of Himmerode, Wittlich, Germany, by 15th century [erased ownership note, \"\"Liber monachorum sancte Marie in hymmenrode ordinis Cisterciensis Treverensis dyocesis,\"\" fol. 1r, Shelfmark C.I.]; Josef von Görres collection, Germany, 19th century [mode of acquisition unknown];  Görres Collection Sale, Munich, 1902 [Catal.libr.mss no. 76 (no. 71 in unpublished, pre-1844 catalog of manuscripts when kept in Koblenz by Ernst Dronke)]; Julien Chappée, Le Mans and Paris, 1902, by purchase [Lot 76, p. 14]; Gruel and Engelmann Collection, Paris, 1903 [no. 88, bookplate on front pastedown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 9, 1903 [mode of acquisition unknown] [bookplate on front pastedown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "first quarter 13th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.72.binding",
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            "width": 31.2,
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        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 5/16 x W: 9 in. (31.2 x 22.8 cm)"
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