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Cabinet - Sources

Frans (II) Francken, c. 1620-25
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Saami man
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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17. Polishing weapons
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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The King and the Bodleian
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Sonnets by Dante in a Lyric Miscellany (MS Can. Ital. 65)
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French invasion of Italy, 1494
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Мозаика (Казахстан)
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Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici: Introduction
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Stamp Seal Pendant from the Lydian Treasure
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 1
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
Image for Érik Desmazières, Portrait of Sir Thomas Browne (2012)
8. Silk or the silk worm
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Photo Album 1979 – 1982
Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 1
Image for Bobart the Younger’s manuscript list of the planned contents of the unpublished first volume of Morison’s Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis.
Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Cushion starfish
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
Image for Pen-and-ink drawing (with grey wash, over pencil) labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger
'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
Image for Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, manuscript on paper, 17th century
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Ашкеназские евреи в Центральной Азии
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The Victoria Cross