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Cabinet - Sources

Monstrances
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Accessing unchained books
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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The Schools Quadrangle, 1613-24
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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
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European bellicosity, 1100-1700
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BSH11: Silver ingot (ovoid).
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Plan of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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Invitations - Queenette Club
William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Room
Donum Dei
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Notes for an article on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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The 1514 Appendix Aldina
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Enquiry about a missing soldier
Maps as symbols of power: Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
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Хлопок как символ (Узбекистан)
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Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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Letter from Laurence Dunne