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Cabinet - Sources

BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
Image for BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.2 (SNG Ashmolean III 2244). [Obverse]
Караганда (Казахстан)
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Duke Humfrey's Library before Bodley
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
Image for Title page of Historiae Naturalis Sciagraphia (1720), traditionally attributed to the Jacob Bobart the Younger.
ABC Books for Bukharan Jews (Central Asia)
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Медаль материнства первой степени (Центральная Азия)
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Gerhard Mercator’s world map of 1569
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Xylography (woodblock printing)
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From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 November 1900
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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Abyssinian roll of parchment
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Saami man
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Birth certificate (Kazakhstan)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
Image for T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3. [Obverse]