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Cabinet - Sources

Letter: "Homesteads for Women."
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
Pre-civil war college plate
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Телефонная книжка (Казахстан)
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Philology: The Antwerp polyglot, 1568-73
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 52v
Multiple ivory balls
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Stamp Seal Pendant from the Lydian Treasure
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Souvenir badge from the Bibi-Khanym Mosque
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«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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T21: Silver siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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Drawing of mountains
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T22: Silver 1/6 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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John Fell's (1625-1686) plate
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Drawing of Mount Bjelašnica
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Anatomical theatres: Padua, 1594
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