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Cabinet - Sources

Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r
Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(5), fol. 9r
Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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Sunday best or bound for China?
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II.4 'Privilegium scholasticum': the jurisdiction of the Chancellor's Court
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Pilgrimage and the Jubilee
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Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
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Arrowheads from Deve Hüyük
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'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Boat on the Kitinen river
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Bembo Family's Sallust
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Excavated Sarcophagus of Roman Girl, 1485
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Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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Domenico Remps, 1690s
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Birth certificate (Kazakhstan)
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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Clone of Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 372)
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Astronomical tower clocks
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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A poetic monument to Soviet post-modernism (Tajikistan)
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