Cabinet will be decommissioned on 22 June 2026, as the underlying technologies on which it depends have reached end of life. The Cabinet website will no longer be available after this date.

Content owners are responsible for ensuring that any required materials are requested and downloaded before 22 June 2026. If you require access to content you have created and have not yet contacted us, please email digital.education@ctl.ox.ac.uk with the subject line “Cabinet” as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Cabinet - Sources

John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
Image for John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
Drawing of three people
Image for PRM 1941.8.176
Jan Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (c. 1535)
Image for Jan Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (c. 1535)
Giulio Romano, Palazzo del Te, Mantua (1524-1535)
Image for Palazzo del Te, Mantua, front view
Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
Image for bfa0075
'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
Image for Meeting of the doctors of the University of Paris, 16th c.
Medieval vs Early Modern Fortifications
Image for Medieval vs Early Modern Fortifications
Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
Image for Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
Macrocosm and microcosm
Image for Fludd, Utriusque cosmi historia, 1617
T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
Image for Clone of T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC. [Obverse]
Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
Image for First page of Robert Morison (1699) Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis pars tertia seu Herbarum distributio nova,: per tabulas cognationis & affinitatis ex libro naturae observata & detecta. Oxonii, E theatro Sheldoniano.
T1: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Maussollos, satrap of Caria (377-353 BC).
Image for Clone of T1: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Maussollos, satrap of Caria (377-353 BC).
Week 1: Sites and Sources
Image for Wk 1 Map
Anatomy theatres
Image for Anatomical theatres: Padua, 1594
De aliis quibusdam Instrumentis nostris
Image for bfa0051
T15: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of Tarkumuwa, c. 380-370 BC.
Image for Clone of T15: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of Tarkumuwa, c. 380-370 BC. [Obverse]
Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
Image for Clone of Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Target
Chinese Trench Art (3D)
Image for Chinese Trench Art
Lithograph of Stockholm
Image for Lithograph of Stockholm
Произведения искусства в семейных интерьерах Ташкента (Узбекистан)
Image for Works of art in family homes in Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
Topography of the island of Hven
Image for Clone of bfa0081
Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
Image for Tylor Papers, Box 12, Item 24 (H4d)