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Cabinet - Sources

Letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Henry Balfour, 21 November 1901
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'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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Zodiac Man
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Photo of Azamat Altay and Chingiz Aitmatov (USA-Kyrgyzstan)
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Languages
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Vatican Library, Pal.lat. 1369, fol. 148r
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Octagonal pyramid seal with royal hero
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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Drawing of the church at Piteå
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Ecclesiastical territories: the bishop of Würzburg as a reforming prince, 1573-1617
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Antiquarianism in the Aegean
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Casting from life, c. 1560-70
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Nixon’s the charm
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Russian servant
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Надгробный камень (Узбекистан)
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Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)
Mountains on the moon
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