Cabinet - Sources

Mausoleum of Hadrian
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The early modern siege
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Cabinet for Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, 1632
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Letter
From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
John Fell's (1625-1686) plate
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Chaplain's Collar
Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
The World in 1700
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Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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Opium Banknote (Turkestan)
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Rose Hughes' album
Robert Boyle
Printing in Venice
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Polish man
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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