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Cabinet - Sources

T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia
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Man
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Sidereus Nuncius, 1610
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Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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Autobiography of Udjahorresne
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Two kingfishers
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10,000 rouble Banknote of the Turkestan Soviet Republic (1920)
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Narrating Dante's Life and Love Through His Lyric Poetry
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 February 1902
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Cristoforo Romano, Gold Medal of Isabella d'Este (1495)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Stradanus, Distillation (Nova Reperta)
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Dante Scholars in Oxford
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Queen Elizabeth I Bible (3D)
Cricket
Drawing of Doboj fortress
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‘Bulgarian Profile’
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