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Total number of records: 137

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Books and printed items108
Textiles26
Archives3

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International Textile Collection26
Brotherton Collection25
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society4
English Literature3
Herbert Read Collection3
Leeds Russian Archive3
Ripon Cathedral2
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1
Medical Collections1

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Iran133
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Xenophon32
Chardin, Sir John (1643-1713)24
Cyrus, the Younger, D. 401 B.C24
Zampi, Giuseppe Maria15
Nadir Shah, Shah of Iran, 1688-17476
Cyrus the Younger, D. 401 B.C4
Hanway, Jonas (1712-1786)4
Cyrus, King of Persia, D. 529 B.C3
Phillips, John (1631-1706)3
Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689)3

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Archive Print Item

Iran in the four seasons : a selection of photographs

Fasāʼī, Muḥammad Ṣādiqī; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1995

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cap
Textile

cap

before 1947

This cap is decorated with borders of couched scrolls of gold coloured metallic thread, and palmettes with eyelets. The eyelets have been worked in white and outlined with red.

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cap
Textile

cap

before 1947

The patterned decoration on this cap is composed of geometric borders with scrolls and chain patterns, couched onto the surface of the fabric in gold coloured metallic threads. It is lined with red c...

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bag
Textile

bag

before 1947

This item is a bag made from a woven silk fabric, which has been hemmed with a wide needle woven border. The piece is folded over and edged with a silk cord at the sides so as to form a bag; two squ...

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bag
Textile

bag

1800-1947

This item is a bag made from a 19th century jacquard woven silk fabric. The fabric has been folded up and stitched at the sides to form a bag. Silk cord has been stitched around the edges, and the b...

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Xenophōntos Kyrou paideias biblia tettara, 1, 2, 3, 4 = Xenophontis Cyri paediae libri quatuor priores [-quatuor posteriores]

Xenophon; Wechel, Chrestien (1495-1554)

M. D. XXXCIII. [M. D. XXXIX.]

Each volume has it own title page and pagination; volume two has a variant publisher's statement: Ex Officina Christiani Wecheli, sub scuto Basiliensi. Pagination: v. 1: [2], 3-126, [2] p.; v. 2: [2...

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I sette libri di Xenophonte della impresa di Ciro minore

Xenophon; Domenichi, Lodovico (1515-1564)

1547

Woodcut initials, printer's device on t.p.

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saddle
Textile

saddle

A donkey saddle of navy blue wool fabric, thickly padded, with a cotton underside. The woollen saddle surface area is embroidered in chain stitch, and the saddle padding anchored by stitch and red fab...

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camel saddlebag
Textile

camel saddlebag

Iran. Camel saddlebag - shaped, open on one side, with a zig zag pattern in navy, red, cream and terracotta wool. The backing fabric feels very harsh, possibly union cloth, made of cotton and wool. Th...

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