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Cabinet - Sources

12. Olive oil
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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Lithograph of Saami items
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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Summary chronology of early printing
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 November 1900
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Multiple ivory balls
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Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 14 1915
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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Harvey's Travels
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Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526)
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Ulm, 1482)
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Mercury and Sulphur in Splendor Solis
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Letters from Samuel Bodger
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Introduction and Contents
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Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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Wax profile of William of Wykeham
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The terrestrial sphere: the four terrestrial elements
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Double pigeon whistle (3-D)
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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