Cabinet - Sources

8. Silk or the silk worm
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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Studiolo of Francesco I: The Fire Wall
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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Mappa Mundi
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Gorytus-tip from Deve Hüyük (BM)
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Lighter
Anthony Wood (1632-1695) and Postmaster's Hall
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Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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Mask of a 'Covid Skull'
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Drawing of a camp-fire
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Automata
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"Homesteads for Women" by Fanny Shepherd.
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (1456–1457)
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10. The Watermill
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The King and the Bodleian
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
Robert Plot
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Soviet Piala (Uzbekistan)
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Accessing unchained books
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