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Cabinet - Sources

Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
Image for Plate of ‘SILIQUOSÆ TETRAPETALÆ, BICAPSULARES, & QUADRICAPSULARES pappescentes & non papp.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 3, Tab. 11) sponsored by Christopher Wren (1632-1723).
Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirts in Soviet Pamir (Tajikistan)
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Xylography (woodblock printing)
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Stupidity
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Runic Almanac
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Professor B F McGuinness
A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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Venice from Nuremberg Chronicle
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Autobiography of Udjahorresne
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Michelangelo, Vestibule to the Laurentian Library (1559)
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Transcription: "So Tired."
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Palazzo Carignano, Turin (1679)
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Pietro da Cortona, Dying St Alessio (c. 1638)
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The Seven Liberal Arts
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My grandmother’s jewellery
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Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640)
Drawing of three people
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Danby Gate, Botanical Garden, 1632-3
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Russian tailor’s apprentices
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Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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