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Cabinet - Sources

Selden End, 1634-7
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Arts End, 1610-12
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JH7: Silver double-shekel of Tyre (Phoenicia).
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Daphne
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‘Types at the Fair’
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The Bobarts' Herbaria
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Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 939 (section 5, verso)
Reimagination
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Pay book
William Holman Hunt, Study of four Eastern figures (c. 1870)
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10,000 rouble Banknote of the Turkestan Soviet Republic (1920)
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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Refurbishing Duke Humphrey's, 1598-1602
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 17403, folios 4r-4v
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Mosaic philosophy
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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16. Terrestrial longitude
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The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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Khaki University Structure
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JH1: Silver stater of Messana (Sicily), c. 488–481 BC.
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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Merton College, 1608-10
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