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Cabinet - Sources

Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Soldier’s Letters
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson of Star House Pole
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Lithograph of Stockholm
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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Советские ховли: типовой одноквартирный дом (Узбекистан)
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Planning the New Basilica
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Queen Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 November 1900
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (B)
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Papal Coin, John XXII
The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Medium sized azimuth quadrant of brass
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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Finnish man
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“Rest in peace, for we are awake”: The Iranian Celebrations of 1971.
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Gerhard Mercator’s world map of 1569
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JH10-JH17: Earrings from the Jordan hoard
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The First Printed Edition of the Vita Nuova, 1576
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John Rose's (1619-1677) plate
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Bird feather fan
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