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Cabinet - Sources

​Boats on the Torne river
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Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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Luther's Bible of 1541
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Felice Feliciano, Alphabetum Romanum
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Narrating Dante's Life and Love Through His Lyric Poetry
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Columbian exchanges
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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Harvey's Teacher in Padua: Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (1537–1619)
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Samovar (RSFSR/Afghanistan, ca.1925)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Опиумная банкнота (Туркестан)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Wooden Shield
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T14: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Pharnabazos, c. 380-373 BC.
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Tyranny of the Duke of Alva
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Appendix: 'On architectural structures suitable for astronomical observations', folio 40r
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Field postcard
Meydancıkkale
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Casino di San Marco: 'The House of Nature'
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