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Cabinet - Sources

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 939 (section 5, verso)
BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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A fragmented polity
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Tables (Tajikistan)
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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Central Oxford in 1578
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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Lives of Ashkenazi Jews (Polish Citizens) in Central Asia
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Forte Michelangelo, Civitavecchia, Roma (1508-1535)
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 2
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Donum Dei
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The Seven Liberal Arts
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Roberto Valturio, De re militari (1472)
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Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae, 1617
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'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
Arba (Kazakhstan)
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson of Star House Pole
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Dala Shiypon in Jarqurgon District (Surkhandaryo Viloyat, Uzbekistan)
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Silver oinochoe with kouros handle from the Lydian Treasure
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