Cabinet will be decommissioned on 22 June 2026, as the underlying technologies on which it depends have reached end of life. The Cabinet website will no longer be available after this date.

Content owners are responsible for ensuring that any required materials are requested and downloaded before 22 June 2026. If you require access to content you have created and have not yet contacted us, please email digital.education@ctl.ox.ac.uk with the subject line “Cabinet” as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Cabinet - Sources

Saami man
Image for PRM 1941.8.36
Medicinal objects in princely collections
Image for Medicinal objects in princely collections
The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
Image for The Five Orders: Hans Blum, 1550/1601
Paper in Chinese folk culture
Image for Paper in Chinese folk culture
Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town (1666-1679)
Image for Castle of Good Hope 1680
Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis (Venice, 1492)
Image for Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis (Venice, 1492)
Lithograph of Stockholm
Image for Lithograph of Stockholm
An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
Image for An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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Image for Bobart the Younger’s manuscript list of the planned contents of the unpublished first volume of Morison’s Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis.
Recording stories and memories
Origins of coins in the Black Sea Hoard
Image for New Black Sea Map
Trench Art Shell Case (3D)
Image for Trench Art Shell Case (3D)
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 248)
Image for bdu0023
Religion in the Holy Roman Empire, 1618
Interior of a Finnish house
Image for Interior of a Finnish house
Planning the New Basilica
Image for Graphic Reconstruction of St Peter in 1450
Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
Image for Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
Image for II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
Music: printing with movable type, 1501
Image for Harmonice Musices Odhecaton 1501
Scales Narrative
Image for Scales
Printed model to printed image: Senecio
Image for Printed illustration struck from a copper plate, engraved by an unknown artist, and published in Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 7, Tab. 12) (left).
Конфеты Кара-Кум (Центральная Азия)
Image for Kara-kum Sweets (Central Asia) -main
Charter of Queen Philippa (1347)
Naming plants
Image for Naming plants