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Cabinet - Sources

Shrapnel paper knife
Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
Image for Augsburg cabinet by Philip Hainhofer for Duke August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
Image for Jean Grolier bookbinding - Omnia Opera Angeli Politiani (1498)
The Drake Chair - Divinity Schools, Bodleian Library
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University of Helmstedt
Thomas Browne, 'Urne-Buriall' (1658)
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Консервированные огурцы (Кыргызстан)
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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Sylva Sylvarum (London, 1627, 1651)
Martin Behaim's globe, 1492
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Hierarchies
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Gaudy 1988
What was printed in the 15th century?
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Letter from Archer Baker to Edward Burnett Tylor, 17 January 1901
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The Suitcase (Kazakhstan)
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Bird Rattle (3D)
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
Image for Plate of ‘TABULA VMBELLARVM GENERALIS. cognationes S[ive]: affinitatis’ from Morison’s Plantarum umbelliferarum distributio nova (1672: Tab. 1).
Drawing of a Bulgarian man
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I.1. University foundations in Europe, 1400-1800
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William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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