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Cabinet - Sources

BSH18: Silver ram's head terminal, from the Black Sea hoard
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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Armillary Sphere
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
Image for ‘An Explanation of the Cutts of two Porphyry Pillars in Aegypt’, in Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (London, December 1685)
Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
Image for The first Translation of Dante's Lyric Poetry in English, Lyell 1835 to Mrs Hooker
Portrait of a Saami man
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Notes for an article on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Salamander Detail from Francis I Gallery
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Русско-таджикский словарь философской терминологии (Таджикистан)
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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‘Mysterious Sepulchres, Podove’
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Советская пиала (Узбекистан)
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
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Tail fat glass jar (Kazakhstan)
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
Image for BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.7. [Obverse]
Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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Houses and totem poles in Masset (print)
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Memphis Customs Account
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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Lunar volvelle
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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Sylva Sylvarum (London, 1627, 1651)
Johann König, Last Judgement on alabaster, before 1632
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