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    "localId": "91486",
    "label": "Binding from Franciscan Liturgical Psalter",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.111.binding"
}

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    "id": "91486",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.111.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Franciscan Liturgical Psalter",
    "description": "This binding is not orginal to its manuscript, but rather it was created and added to the manuscript in the 16th century in Flanders.",
    "provenance": "[Made for Franciscan use in Cologne, late thirteenth century, Ripuarisch dialect points to Cologne region]; Augustinian nuns of St. Cecilia, Cologne, late 15th or 16th century; Susanna Koull, 17th century; L.S. Olschki [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, by purchase [L.S. Olschiki, no. 24][date of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "16th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.111.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.9,
            "height": 9.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 1/16 × W: 3 13/16 in. (12.9 × 9.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Christian; German",
    "med": "beech boards covered in brown calf leather, blind-tooled Renaissance motifs with corner and edges of binding restored, one sixteenth-century brass clasp remaining and red, white and blue parchment Turk head fore-edge markers",
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    ],
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        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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