Cabinet will be decommissioned on 22 June 2026, as the underlying technologies on which it depends have reached end of life. The Cabinet website will no longer be available after this date.

Content owners are responsible for ensuring that any required materials are requested and downloaded before 22 June 2026. If you require access to content you have created and have not yet contacted us, please email digital.education@ctl.ox.ac.uk with the subject line “Cabinet” as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Cabinet - Sources

Index of Prohibited Books
Image for Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Venice, 1564
Swiss Mercenaries
Image for Swiss Mercenaries Crossing the Alps, 1513
Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
Image for Printed illustration struck from a copper plate engraved by Frederick Hendrick van Hove and published in Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 14, Tab. 2)
The parallatic or ruler-instrument
Image for bfa0025
Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
Image for Follower of David Teniers, Alchemist in his Laboratory
The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
Image for William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, vol. 1 (London, 1802)
The Seven Liberal Arts
Image for The Seven Liberal Arts
Quadrans Magnus Chalibeus Quadrato Inclusus
Image for bfa0049
Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
Image for Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
Soldier’s Letters
Image for Soldier’s Letters
Key innovation: the escapement
Image for Key innovation: the escapement
Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
Image for Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
Перевод Дюшена (Таджикистан)
Image for Translation of Duchêne (Tajikistan)
Queen Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
Image for Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1643/45)
Image for David Teniers, The Alchemist
The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
Image for Fusee
Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
Image for Aerial View of Jaca Bastion Fort in Spain
Proscholium and its facade, 1610-12
Image for Proscholium by Ackermann
Brain and ocular system
Explore the Display Case
Image for Case Display
Произведение искусства Сюзан Бушнак (Узбекистан)
Image for Suzan Bushnaq’s Artwork (Uzbekistan)
Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 February 1902
Image for Tylor Papers, Box 12, Item 26 (H5)
Plate to print: carrot
Image for Detail of carrot from plate of ‘UMBELLÆ semine villoso seu hispido donatae.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 9, Tab. 13), together with the face of the copper plate from which it was printed.
Oxford's most famous sundial
Image for Clone of Oxford's most famous sundial