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Cabinet - Sources

An Anthology of Dante’s ‘Minor’ Works (MS Can. Ital. 114)
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Russian man
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41r
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Надпись «Ленинград-Ташкенту» (Узбекистан)
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The 1727 Reprint of the Giuntina
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Explore the Display Case
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Missions to Japan
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Gül-yaka (Turkmenistan)
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John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
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Sunday best or bound for China?
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'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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Clone of The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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‘Bulgarian Settlement’
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John Wilkins
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Great azimuth semicircle
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Saami group
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
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The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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