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Cabinet - Sources

Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Saami man
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Paper flowers
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Luther's Bible of 1541
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Clone of Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Astrolabe table clock
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Raphael, The Marriage of the Virgin (1504)
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Introduction
Lithograph of a Saami market
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Examination Papers (1975-6)
‘Christian Monuments, Tassorić’ / ‘Graveyard at Tassorić’
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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Saami cradle
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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New-world diseases and treatments
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Seal of Cyrus I
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‘Finnish household’
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Kurt (Kurut)
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Lunar cycle
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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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Clone of Herbal of Leonhard Fuchs (1542)
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