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Cabinet - Sources

‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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Comenius's Praeludia, 1637
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Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Lithograph of antlers and weapons
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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John Donne's 1531 Convivio
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Drawing of flax being prepared
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Qingbai Bowl, Southern Song dynasty, porcelain (12th Century)
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Tomb of Darius at Naqsh-e Rustam
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Statue of Queen Philippa (3D)
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Clone of Instruments for Dissection
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
Sheldonian Ceiling
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Saami cradle
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 254)
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Arrowhead on chain from Deve Hüyük
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Letter: "Homesteads for Women."
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Archibald Pitcairne's (1652-1713) plate
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Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule (1485)
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A Commedia with a Lyric Collection (MS Can. Ital. 111)
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