Wooden book stand. X-shaped when open; collapses flat. The stand has a decorative panel composed of small pieces of painted wood mosaic with gold(?) inlay. The legs have simple scrollwork designs and an unpainted underside.

Illuminated Qur’an with script written in black ink. Covers made of brown leather, with incised and painted decorations. Spine made of painted cloth. Front cover has a raised, inner border, outlined in black paint on the outer edge and a wide band of gold leaf along the inner edge. Alternating incised lines and dots along the raised portion. Lines done in black, circles in gold. In the centre of the cover is a raised oval, with pointed ends, outlined in gold and black. Black curvilinear motifs across surface of oval, with impressed dots on each side. Dots are filled with gold leaf. Back cover has a raised, inner border, outlined in black and gold on either side. Covers lined with paper. Each page of the Qur’an has lines of script, with floral motifs throughout sentences, bordered by simple black and gold lines. The first two pages are highly decorated. Motifs are done in gold and blue, with pink, red, white and orange highlights throughout. Designs include curvilinear lines, feathers, flowers and arrows. Gold, red and blue decorative bands, with floral motifs, divide sections of text. Some pages have curvilinear designs along the edges. Designs are done in gold, blue and red, and filled with floral motifs. Pencil inscription on last page.

Long open-front coat. Red striped silk with light blue and off-white cross-hatched lining. Panels of embroidered strips extend down the front on both sides of opening, and on the underside of the cuffs. The opening, collar, and cuffs are embroidered with yellow, black and white flowers. The front is decorated with metal drops (possibly pounded coins?), as well as Pahlavi Dynasty coins and Islamic Republic of Iran coins. The latter have amber-like decorations on the obverse side of each coin.

Salt bag composed of two panels stitched together on the left and right edges. The body of the bag is a wide rectangle, while the neck is a thinner rectangle with a reddish-brown strap on the upper corners. The neck of the bag is decorated with three horizontal stripes: the top and bottom with six and seven, respectively, yellow hexagons with black lines in the centre on a black background; the central with five light brown diamonds, each bordered above and below by T shapes, on a black background. The body of the bag is decorated with alternating vertical stripes of dark grey and yellow. The furthest left and right dark grey stripes have yellow and dark grey triangles. The yellow stripes have many horizontal diamonds, outlined in black and coloured either yellow or brown. The stripes are bordered above and below by dark grey triangles. Two brown tassels with fibre puffs and white beads are attached to the upper left corner of the body of the bag. The bottom of the bag has a brown fringe and many crisscrossed brown cords with gaps between them that form diamonds. The outer edges of the cords form a triangular shape. White beads and black, purple, brown, brownish-grey, dark red, or purplish-grey fibre puffs are on the bottom of each cord.

Book of the Qur’an, inscribed in naskh script inside the cover. The first few pages are highly coloured and decorative. Most other pages of script are bordered by a simple band of gold and blue, with most of the script in black and red ink. Chapter headers are painted with brightly coloured decorative bands. The cover has a flowered pattern painted(?) onto the outside; a flower patterned paper adhered to the inside covers. Pages are loosely bound with string, currently only attached in one place to the cover. (Part b is a soft fabric cover that is sewn in the shape of an envelope; in storage.)

Qur'an leaf, in Kufic script on vellum. The script is in dark brown ink on parchment, with seven lines per page. The vocalization is rendered in red dots, and single verse divisions are marked with triangular clusters of six gold discs. Fifth verse divisions are marked with a solidly coloured Kufic letter ha in gold (representing the number 5 in the abjad system), outlined in black. Tenth verse divisions are marked with an illuminated cusped roundel formed by interlacing gold and white bands decorated with elegant scrolls and dots containing the exact verse count – in this case thalathun (thirty) – on gold Kufic script on a reserved central space.

One tile from a set of nine square tiles that fit together to make a larger (72 x 72 cm) square design. This tile is from the bottom row, left corner. It contains four multi-coloured fish in the green border, then a blue triangle with a multi-coloured flower inside it, a strand of multi-coloured flowers to the right of the triangle and some vertical grey Hebrew script at the right edge.

One tile from a set of nine square tiles that fit together to make a larger (72 x 72 cm) square design. This tile is from the middle column at the bottom. It contains three multi-coloured fish in the green border, four wheat sheaths with crossed stems, and with a flower between them, and a pair of feet and a portion of a green robe above that. Some grey Hebrew script is visible at the left and right sides.

One tile from a set of nine square tiles that fit together to make a larger (72 x 72 cm) square design. This is the centre row tile of the left side column. It contains two multi-coloured fish in the green border, a strand of multi-coloured flowers to the left of that, and vertical grey Hebrew script to the left of the flowers.

One tile from a set of nine square tiles that fit together to make a larger (72 x 72 cm) square design. This is the centre tile, which contains most of the body of a male, standing with one arm raised and the other holding a tablet with writing. The man has long hair and a beard and is wearing a green robe with a brown striped robe underneath. Some edges of the Hebrew script can be seen in the two upper corners.