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{
    "localId": "90564",
    "label": "Binding from Psalter of St. Mary of Strasbourg",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.69.binding"
}

{
    "id": "90564",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.69.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Psalter of St. Mary of Strasbourg",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. Possibly fourteenth century; beech boards covered with alum-tawed pigskin(?); pastedowns made from leaves of a thirteenth-century psalter litany; blind-tooled fillet decoration in a diaper pattern on boards, particularly visible on the lower board; brass clasp added in the fifteenth century(?); spine lettered in an eighteenth-century script, reading \"Psalterium Msc. pergam. cum canticis et symbolis\"",
    "provenance": "Made for use in the Diocese of Constance after 1224; Used by the church of St. Mary of Strasbourg, 14th century; Owned by Dominicans in the 15th century(?); Martin Bassonier, 15th century, [mode of acquisition unknown; signature on back pastedown]; Bénigne-Charles Févret de Saint Mémin (1770-1852), France, [mode of acquisition unknown, bookplate on front pastedown]; Léon Gruel collection, Paris, late 19th or early 20th century, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931, [acquired from Gruel, mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "possibly 14th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.69.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "bindings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.69.binding_Ext_DD_Spine.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.69.binding_Ext_DD_Spine.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.69.binding_Ext_DD_Spine.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20.2,
            "height": 14.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 7 15/16 x 5 9/16 in. (20.2 x 14.1 cm); Folio H: 7 5/8 x W: 5 3/8 in. (19.4 x 13.7 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "Possibly fourteenth century; beech boards covered with alum-tawed pigskin(?); pastedowns made from leaves of a thirteenth-century psalter litany; blind-tooled fillet decoration in a diaper pattern on boards, particularly visible on the lower board; brass clasp added in the fifteenth century(?); spine lettered in an eighteenth-century script, reading \"\"Psalterium Msc. pergam. cum canticis et symbolis\"\"",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6211"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.69.binding_TopExt_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "422b5d7d32c9bef2"
}