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Cabinet - Sources

«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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Duke Humfrey's Library before Bodley
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Saami women
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Sphaera civitatis
Book Forms: Handscrolls
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Stamp Seal Pendant from the Lydian Treasure
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An unlikely duo
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Woman and child
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Statue of Buddha
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Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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Eurasia and Africa c. 1025 AD
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Giulio Romano, Palazzo del Te, Mantua (1524-1535)
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Sunday best or bound for China?
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Robert Morison (1620-1683)
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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'Moon's fair beam'
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Divinity School, 1427-83
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Certificate of purges (Kyrgyzstan)
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The first permanent anatomical theatre: Padua, 1594
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Letters Patent of Edward III (1347)