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    "localId": "90562",
    "label": "Binding from Vienna Book of Hours",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.764.binding.1"
}

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    "id": "90562",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.764.binding.1",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Vienna Book of Hours",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. Rebound by Abigail Quandt, Walters Art Museum, 1985, with white goatskin over wooden boards and two woven clasps with metal fittings; previous binding eighteenth-century green silk over heavy pasteboard (now housed separately)",
    "provenance": "Probably commissioned by a member of the court of Emperor Frederick III of Austria (1415-1493) for his son Prince Maximilian (1459-1519), Vienna, Austria, ca. 1460-65, with illuminations by the Master of the Maximilian Schoolbooks; Bernard Quaritch, London, 1910, [mode of acquisition unknown, no. 238]; C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, November 28, 1912, by purchase [Auction CX]; Jacques Rosenthal, Munich, 1928 [Catalog 90, no. 196] and 1929 [Catalog 91, no. 6], by purchase; Sale, H. P. Krauss, New York, 1959, [Catalog 88, no. 14]; Walters Art Museum, 1959, by purchase.",
    "date": "1985",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.764.binding.1",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.1,
            "height": 12.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 6 3/4 x 4 15/16 in. (17.1 x 12.5 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "Rebound by Abigail Quandt, Walters Art Museum, 1985, with white goatskin over wooden boards and two woven clasps with metal fittings; previous binding eighteenth-century green silk over heavy pasteboard (now housed separately)",
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        "1736"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
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}

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