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Cabinet - Sources

Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Bird feather fan
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Eurasia and Africa c. 1025 AD
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Books on bamboo
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Medium sized azimuth quadrant of brass
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III.3 The Seven Liberal Arts
‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Thomas Browne, 'Urne-Buriall' (1658)
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Interior of Grote Kerk, Haarlem by Pieter Saenredam
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Cilicia: Sites and Sources
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Lithograph of church at Umeå
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Raphael, The Marriage of the Virgin (1504)
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Arrowhead on chain from Deve Hüyük
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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Drawing of the interior of a Finnish house
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Letter
Seal of Cyrus I
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Plan of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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Genoese territories and trade routes
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