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Cabinet - Sources

The Savilian Professorships, 1619
Image for Funerary Monument for Henry Savile
Recording stories and memories
John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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The three perfections: calligraphy
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The surrender of Oxford, May-June 1646
Image for Cromwell's House, Marston
New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
Image for Guaiacum and syphilis from the Nova reperta
Letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Henry Balfour, 21 November 1901
Image for PRM Accession Records (Donations 3), fol.49r (additions, recto and verso)
Models of Saami men
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Drawing of a Bulgarian settlement
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Crucifixion in coral
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 14 December 1899
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
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‘Bulgarian Settlement’
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Necklace with acorn pendants from the Lydian Treasure
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Missions to China
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Selden End, 1634-7
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Finnish boy
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Armillary Sphere (from 1613)
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Lives of Ashkenazi Jews (Polish Citizens) in Central Asia
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The first permanent anatomical theatre: Padua, 1594
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