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Cabinet - Sources

Tubeteika (Uzbekistan)
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Portrait of John Case
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Transitions to print: Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Saami cradle
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Oriel
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SS Vicenzo e Atanasio Church, Rome (1644-1650)
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The printing process
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Polish Prayer Book (Kazakhstan)
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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Accessing unchained books
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Headless Virgin and Child statue
Archbishop William Laud and the Bishops' War (1639-40)
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Europe c. 1700
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Architecture: The Five Orders
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Pierre Belon, 'De aquatilibus, Libri duo' (1553)
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Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, 1710
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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