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    "localId": "90561",
    "label": "Binding from Psalter",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.78.binding"
}

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    "id": "90561",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.78.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Psalter",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. Ca. 1900; purple velvet over millboard; sewn on five thin recessed cords; blind-tooled with an ivy leaf rolled border and a three-line roll formed into a saltire",
    "provenance": "Monastery in the Diocese of Augsburg, mid 13th century (calendar and litany); Bénigne-Charles Févret de Saint-Mémin (1770-1852) [see bookplate, front pastedown]; Sale, Kupitsch, Vienna, 1840 [see inscription, fol. 1r]; Professor Victor Goldschmidt, Heidelberg (d. 1927), by purchase (?); Léon Gruel, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 13th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.78.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.7,
            "height": 16.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 9 5/16 x 6 9/16 in. (23.7 x 16.7 cm)"
}

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    "med": "purple velvet over millboard; sewn on five thin recessed cords; blind-tooled with an ivy leaf rolled border and a three-line roll formed into a saltire",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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