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Cabinet - Sources

The King and the Bodleian
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Mask of a 'Covid Skull'
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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Anonymous 'Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis' (1648)
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Sundials
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Bill of account from the Hudson’s Bay Company to Edward Burnett Tylor, 9 November 1900
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Refurbishing Duke Humphrey's, 1598-1602
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Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
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Flea
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Hemispherical silver bowl with gold appliqués (BM)
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Venetian territories and trade routes
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Memorial to Sir William Jones - University College Chapel
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Wellcome MS 349, fol. 22r
Quadrant, England, brass (17th century)
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Albert Eckhout, African Woman (1641)
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Sextans Chalibeus
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The 1527 Giuntina
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Произведение искусства Сюзан Бушнак (Узбекистан)
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10,000 rouble Banknote of the Turkestan Soviet Republic (1920)
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
Image for Plate of ‘SILIQUOSÆ TETRAPETALÆ BICAPSULARES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 3, Tab. 9) sponsored by John Evelyn (1620-1706).
Introduction: New inventions, c. 1600
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