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    "localId": "92121",
    "label": "Binding from Aussem Hours",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.437.binding"
}

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    "id": "92121",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.437.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Aussem Hours",
    "description": "This sixteenth century German  binding is original to the manuscript. It has brown leather over wooden boards and is stamped with designs of fleurs-de-lis, rosettes, unicorns, Cologne heraldry, and St. Paul under an arch. Holes are visible where clasps (now missing) were originally attached.",
    "provenance": "Aussem family, Cologne, early sixteenth century [1]; Marshall C. Lefferts Collection, New York, before 1901; purchased by George H. Richmond collection, New York, 1901. Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] fol. 58v coat of arms, fol. 82v kneeling donor",
    "date": "Early 16th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.437.binding",
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    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17,
            "height": 12
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 11/16 × W: 4 3/4 in. (17 × 12 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Christian; German",
    "med": "brown leather over wooden boards",
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    ],
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}

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