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Cabinet - Sources

Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
Image for Herbarium specimen labelled ‘Malva hortensis major simplex. Single Hollyhocks’ [Jacob Bobart the Younger’s hand] [modern name: Alcea rosea L. (Malvaceae)] from Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus.
Bill of account from the Hudson’s Bay Company to Edward Burnett Tylor, 9 November 1900
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Anecdote About Homesteading from George Shepherd
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Russian wet nurse
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Drawing of a Turkish café
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Sonnets by Dante in a Lyric Miscellany (MS Can. Ital. 65)
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Astronomical Clock, Rostock
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Saami woman
Image for PRM 1941.8.30
The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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The four humours
Image for Clone of The Galenic Humours, by Lois Hague, 1991
Silver
The King and the Bodleian
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Angels
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Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Copper engraving
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Avarice
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Dombra of Dina Nurpeisova (Kazakhstan)
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Russian women
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JH6: Silver stater of Paphos (Cyprus).
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Botanical gardens outside Italy
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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Anatomical Theatres
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Redesigning the college library: Merton, 1589-90
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