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Cabinet - Sources

Oriel
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Armillary Sphere (from 1613)
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
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Multiple ivory balls
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Lithograph of a bear hunt
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Clone of Anatomy theatre, Padua, 1594
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Languages
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50 Iranian Rial Banknote of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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Drawing of a warehouse
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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Raphael, School of Athens (1509-1510)
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JH10-JH17: Earrings from the Jordan hoard
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Drawing of the church at Piteå
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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Kurt (Kurut)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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Пионерский галстук (Таджикистан)
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II.2 'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Models of Saami women
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Rhinoceros-Horn Cup
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