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    "localId": "91114",
    "label": "Binding from Gospel Book",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.528.binding"
}

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    "id": "91114",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.528.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Gospel Book",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. Greek; perhaps seventeenth-century; tooled brown goatskin over grooved boards, with prominent brown calf repairs on exterior of upper and lower boards; many quires fortified with paper at gutter; raised endbands; paper pastedowns; parchment flyleaf, probably added by Leon Gruel (foliated as fol. 1); traces of pins and fastening braids",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "17th century (?)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.528.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Manuscripts & Rare Books",
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 9 1/16 x 6 1/2 in. (23 x 16.5 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Byzantine",
    "med": "Greek; perhaps seventeenth-century; tooled brown goatskin over grooved boards, with prominent brown calf repairs on exterior of upper and lower boards; many quires fortified with paper at gutter; raised endbands; paper pastedowns; parchment flyleaf, probably added by Leon Gruel (foliated as fol. 1); traces of pins and fastening braids",
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}

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