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Cabinet - Sources

Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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A cook in the trenches
Zheltoqsan (Kazakhstan)
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Houses and totem poles in Masset (print)
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Kara-kum Sweets (Central Asia)
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BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Bernard Palissy (attributed), Oval Platter
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 17403, folios 4r-4v
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen, 1606/8
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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Russian men
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Introduction: architecture becomes a liberal art
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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BSH14: Silver strip.
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Souvenir badge from the Bibi-Khanym Mosque
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Printing and salvation in Japan: One Million Pagodas, ca. 764–70 CE
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Russian-Tajik Dictionary for Philosophical Terminology (Tajikistan)
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Clypeus ploti Fossil
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Doll (Kazakhstan)
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Armillae aliae AEquatoriae
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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