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Cabinet - Sources

A Florentine Poetic Anthology (MS Can. Ital. 99)
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Pope Julius II by Raphael (1511)
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Lives of Ashkenazi Jews (Polish Citizens) in Central Asia
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T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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Drawing of an Alchemical House from Libavius (1606)
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Jacob Bobart the Elder (c.1599-1680)
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Drawing of pottery vessels
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Secrets of the calendar
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Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Мозаика (Казахстан)
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Drawing of a lake
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Ordinary visitors: evidence of handling
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Phoenicia: Sites and Sources
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Reindeer
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The Drake Chair
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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T7: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Kuprlli of Xanthos, c. 480-420 BC.
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Thomas Browne, 'Urne-Buriall' (1658)
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The World in 1700
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Forte Michelangelo, Civitavecchia, Roma (1508-1535)
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