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Cabinet - Sources

Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 2
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Lithograph of Saami items
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Advert for soap
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Timeline
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BSH18: Silver ram's head terminal, from the Black Sea hoard
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Quadrans Vetus
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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JH7: Silver double-shekel of Tyre (Phoenicia).
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Introduction
Reindeer
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Fragment of the Rose Tapestries, wool and silk (1480s)
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Porter's note
Catacomb Saints
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Epilogue: 1470 and after
The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Divinity School, 1427-83
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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
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Robert Plot
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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