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Total number of records: 10

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Books and printed items6
Textiles4

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International Textile Collection4
Brotherton Collection1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1

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Iran10
Greece3
Isfahan1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Xenophon4
Cyrus, the Younger, D. 401 B.C3
White, John T3
White, John T (1809-1893)3
Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheeler (1837-1914)1
Churchill, Sidney John Alexander1
Cyrus the Younger, D. 401 B.C1
Rawlinson, George (1812-1902)1
Schneider, Johann Gottlob1
Schneider, Johann Gottlob (1750-1822)1

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hat
Textile

hat

A man's hat from Iran, brimless, hand embroidered, made of stiff cotton, with concentric rings of geometric patterns in black, blue, orange, burgundy, and green. Chain stitch is used.

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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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panel for purse
Textile

panel for purse

before 1947

This item forms a panel intended for use in the construction of a purse. It is tapestry woven in the pattern of a tulip using a silk weft and linen warp. The tulip is said to come from a Persian wor...

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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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Persia

Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheeler (1837-1914)

1888

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The retreat of the ten thousand

Witt, C; Younghusband, Frances; Xenophon

1896

Based on the Anabasis of Xenophon.--cf. Pref.

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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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The second book of Xenophon's Anabasis

Xenophon; White, John T (1809-1893)

1872

Wanting all before the title-page.

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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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