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Cabinet - Sources

My grandmother’s jewellery
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Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Saami man
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Polish basket sellers
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Accessing unchained books
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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Camera obscura
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Mausoleum of Hadrian
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 1
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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Letters Patent of Edward III (1347)
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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John Knox (1514-1572) - Portraits
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Great azimuth semicircle
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Dedication (cont.)
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The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy
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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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Hemispherical sundial
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Chancellor's Court, 1634-7
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