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Cabinet - Sources

Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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BSH15: Silver pennanular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’
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Gül-yaka (Turkmenistan)
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Javelin head/arrowhead from Deve Hüyük
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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Arrowheads from Deve Hüyük
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T19: Silver siglos, “King shooting” Carradice Type 2.
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Saami woman
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Baked potato
Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Timekeeping devices
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Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r
‘Croatian Pottery’
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Oldenburg's correspondence
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