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Total number of records: 11

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items5
Textiles5
Archives1

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
greek language2
greek literature, hellenistic1
hebrew letters -- texts.1
jewish press -- england -- london -- history.1
jews -- england -- history -- sources.1
jews -- england -- london -- history -- sources.1
jews -- iran -- history -- sources.1
jews -- italy -- venice -- history -- sources.1
manuscripts, english -- 19th century -- texts.1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Iran11
Greece3
Isfahan2
Amsterdam (Netherlands)1
Chichester (England)1
Genoa (Italy)1
London (England)1
Venice (Italy)1
Warsaw (Poland)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Xenophon5
Cyrus, the Younger, D. 401 B.C3
White, John T3
White, John T (1809-1893)3
Goodwin, William Watson (1831-1912)2
White, John Williams (1849-1917)2
Churchill, Sidney John Alexander1
Cyrus the Younger, D. 401 B.C1
Cyrus, the Younger, Approximately 423 B.C.-401 B.C1
Goodwin, William Watson1

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Earliest dateCount
From 15001
From 16001
From 18005

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18996
Up to 19992
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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boots
Textile

boots

A pair of embroidered boots with a leather sole and heel, leather piping and binding. The fabric is black cotton with hand embroidery using white, red, yellow, orange, blue, and purple threads in geom...

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hat
Textile

hat

A hand embroidered man's hat from Iran, with a printed pattern red cotton lining. The crown portion has a small peak. There is purple, white, ochre, teal and blue stitching in segments on the crown, a...

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saddle bag
Textile

saddle bag

Saddle bag which is hand embroidered in wool in a geometric pattern using predominantly red but also black and white thread. The fabric is very rough, and hardwearing, possibly union cloth, cotton war...

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Safavid prayer rug design
Textile

Safavid prayer rug design

Churchill, Sidney John Alexander (1862-1921)

16th-19th Century

Two pieces of cloth-backed squared paper with a design or cartoon for a silk prayer rug. The design depicts a mihrab shape decorated with arabesques and lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and magnolia flowe...

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Archive Print Item

The first book of Xenophon's Anabasis : with a vocabulary

Xenophon; White, John T (1809-1893)

1877

2 p. of advertisements at the end.

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Archive Print Item

The second book of Xenophon's Anabasis

Xenophon; White, John T (1809-1893)

1872

Wanting all before the title-page.

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Archive Print part

The first four books of Xenophon's Anabasis

Xenophon; Goodwin, William Watson (1831-1912); White, John Williams (1849-1917)

1885

Greek text, summaries and notes in English.

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Archive Print Item

Xenophōntos Kyrou Anabasis = Xenophon's Expedition of Cyrus into upper Asia

Xenophon; White, John T (1809-1893); Schneider, Johann Gottlob (1750-1822)

1848

Text in Greek; notes in English.

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Archive Print Item

The first four books of Xenophon's Anabasis

Xenophon; Goodwin, William Watson (1831-1912); White, John Williams (1849-1917)

1896

Greek text, summaries and notes in English.

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Archive Judaica File

[29 documents, letters, and other ephemera pertaining to Anglo-Jewish history (especially the newspaper The Voice of Jacob), 1659–1938 (bulk 1826–1868) (originals)].

1659–1938

Title supplied by cataloguer. Summary: The collection contains 29 separate items, the majority of which are foliated in pencil in upper right recto as if bound together; the items are primarily in ...

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