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Damasks : their origin & ornamentation (1920)

Stroheim & Romann · New York : Stroheim & Romann · leaf 41

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e\y no bounds. So magnificent were the garments of the kings and the trappings ot their horses that their courtiers in attempting to rival them "bore thither/' according to a contemporary writer, "their mills, their forests, and their meadows, on their backs." For sixteen days after diplomatic… … The Meeting of Henry VIII of England and Francis I of Frayice^ on the Field of the Cloth of Gold [33]

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