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Cabinet - Sources

Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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Dombra of Dina Nurpeisova (Kazakhstan)
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Totem poles
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Mathematical model (from 1620)
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Бетонные заборы (Кыргызстан)
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New plants, new medicines: tobacco
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Missions to China
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Disorder
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Transcription: "Use The Language of Love."
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Wax profile of William of Wykeham
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Mask of a 'Covid Skull'
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Sentimental cards
II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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A poem written by Christopher Wordsworth at Winchester
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Classical architecture arrives in Oxford, 1599
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Frans (II) Francken, c. 1620-25
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