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Cabinet - Sources

New plants, new medicines: tobacco
Image for Tobacco Plant, from Nicolas Monardes' Historia medicinal (1574)
Paper flowers
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 1
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 28, 1915
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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The Moynaq Canned Fish combine (Uzbekistan)
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Clone of Medieval gardens
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1644)
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Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
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Pope as Antichrist
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Медаль материнства первой степени (Центральная Азия)
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
Image for Plate of ‘BACCIFERÆ EDULES & NON EDULES SCANDENTES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 1, Tab. 1) sponsored by Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland (1619-1682).
“Rest in peace, for we are awake”: The Iranian Celebrations of 1971.
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Rose Hughes' album
II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Purpose
Translation of the Qu'ran by Sayyid Mahmud Tarazi (Uzbekistan/India)
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Cantino world map (1502)
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
Image for Jean Grolier bookbinding - Omnia Opera Angeli Politiani (1498)
Pavilion