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Cabinet - Sources

Robert Boyle's (1627-1691) plate
Image for Plate of ‘Legumina non Scandentia siliquis erectis’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 2, Tab. 7) sponsored by Robert Boyle (1627-1691).
BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
Image for Plate of ‘TRICAPSULARES HEXAPETALÆ radice squamosá præditæ’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 4, Tab. 21) sponsored by Thomas Millington (1628-1703).
Sonnets by Dante in a Lyric Miscellany (MS Can. Ital. 65)
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Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis (Venice, 1492)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Explore the Display Case
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Looking to the future
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Russian fruit seller
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Vitruvius on architecture
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Elephant's tooth
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Upper Gallery, 1618-19
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Fragment of the Rose Tapestries, wool and silk (1480s)
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1644)
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Accessing unchained books
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Tyranny of the Duke of Alva
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Rice fields (Central Asia)
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Aristotelianism in Medicine
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Interior of Grote Kerk, Haarlem by Pieter Saenredam
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Коллекция почтовых марок «Народы СССР» (Центральная Азия)
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