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Cabinet - Sources

The Medieval Worldview
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The Oxford syllabus as circulus disciplinarum, 1635
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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History
Saami group
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Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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Europe c. 1700
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T21: Silver siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Quadrans Vetus
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Туркменские серьги гулак-халка: память о войне и устойчивые традиции (Туркменистан)
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Bead Calculator
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"Harpy" Tomb, c. 480 BC
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Plate to print: carrot
Image for Detail of carrot from plate of ‘UMBELLÆ semine villoso seu hispido donatae.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 9, Tab. 13), together with the face of the copper plate from which it was printed.
Medial Wall Sulci Model
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 2
Image for Title page of the 1715 reprint of Robert Morison (1680) Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis pars secunda seu Herbarum distributio nova,: per tabulas cognationis & affinitatis ex libro naturae observata & detecta. Oxonii, E theatro Sheldoniano.
Missions to India
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Persepolis palace complex
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Execution of Levellers, Gloucester Green, 1649
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Genoese territories and trade routes
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
Image for BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.58 (SNG Ashmolean XI 1790). [Obverse]
Convocation House, 1634-7
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