Cabinet will be decommissioned on 22 June 2026, as the underlying technologies on which it depends have reached end of life. The Cabinet website will no longer be available after this date.

Content owners are responsible for ensuring that any required materials are requested and downloaded before 22 June 2026. If you require access to content you have created and have not yet contacted us, please email digital.education@ctl.ox.ac.uk with the subject line “Cabinet” as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Cabinet - Sources

The three perfections: calligraphy
Image for Chinese calligraphy
Saxon woman
Image for Saxon woman 1
Saami man
Image for PRM 1941.8.36
Saami boys
Image for Saami boys
New plants, new medicines: tobacco
Image for Tobacco Plant, from Nicolas Monardes' Historia medicinal (1574)
Toward miniaturisation: the Fusee
Image for Fusee
Repurposed buildings: churches
Image for Repurposed buildings: churches
Saami cradle
Image for Saami cradle
Drawing of the Church of Saint Jacob in Hudiksvall
Image for Drawing of the Church of Saint Jacob in Hudiksvall 1
Queenie Vol. VII, No. 2
Medial Wall Sulci Model
Image for Medial Wall Sulci Model
Johann König, Last Judgement on alabaster, before 1632
Image for Johann König, Last Judgement, before 1632
Russian women
Image for Russian women
Design of the main buildings of Uraniborg
Image for Clone of bfa0077
Japanese 'Inro' Watch
Image for Japanese 'Inro' Watch
Letters Patent of Edward III (1347)
T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
Image for T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC. [Obverse]
Lithograph of Saami fishermen
Image for Lithograph by Hermann Delius 1
Depiction of Mecca by Louis-Nicolas de Lespinasse, 1787
Image for Depiction of Mecca by Louis-Nicolas de Lespinasse, 1787
Mosaic philosophy
Image for Johann Daniel Mylius on the seven days of creation
Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
Image for Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (Close-up)
Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
Image for Clone of Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
A supra-national entity
Image for A supra-national entity
Saxon woman
Image for Saxon woman