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Cabinet - Sources

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 259v
Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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Javelin head/arrowhead from Deve Hüyük
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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Чемодан (Казахстан)
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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Chess-Man
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Andrea Palladio, Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (1566-1610)
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Anatomy: a manual art, 1493
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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Invitation
Three medals: Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Marsilio Ficino, De amore
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Florentine Codex, Nahuas infected with smallpox (c. 1585)
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Rhodes House, South Parks Road
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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Finding the qibla
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Astrolabe table clock
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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VI.1 The Reformation and the universities: continuity or change?
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