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{
    "localId": "92601",
    "label": "Binding from Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.22.binding"
}

{
    "id": "92601",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.22.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis",
    "description": "This non-original binding was created in France in the nineteenth century and attached to a 12th century manuscript copy of Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis by Macrobius.",
    "provenance": "Purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "ca. 1175-1200 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.22.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/W22_000002_300.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/W22_000002_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/W22_000002_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 10,
    "pageCount": 10,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21,
            "height": 13
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall H: 8 1/4 x W: 5 1/8 in. (21 x 13 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "nineteenth century brown calfskin with decorative gilding",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/W22_000137_300.jpg",
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