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    "localId": "91115",
    "label": "Binding from Gospel Book",
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    "id": "91115",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Gospel Book",
    "description": "Binding is non-original. Early twentieth-century (probably Leon Gruel); tooled leather over squared wooden board; five brass bosses on each cover; slightly raised endbands; pastedowns are fragments from Chicago, University of Chicago Library MS 138, fourteenth century",
    "provenance": "Leon Gruel, Paris, late 19th - early 20th century [date and mode oac acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, MD, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "20th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.523.binding",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
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        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22,
            "height": 16,
            "depth": 11
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 8 11/16 x 6 5/16 x 4 5/16 in. (22 x 16 x 11 cm)"
}

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