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Cabinet - Sources

Pay book
Wellcome MS 49, fol. 35r
Saami woman
Image for PRM 1941.8.47
Xanthos Trilingual, 337 BC
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The moons of Jupiter
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Title page (vol. 2)
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Astronomical Clock, Rostock
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Russian woman
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 3
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Drawing of a woman
Image for PRM 1941.8.170
John Donne's 1531 Convivio
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Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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Index of Prohibited Books
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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Drawing of Saami children
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Bladder fish
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Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth
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Week 6: Sites and Sources
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II.2 'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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BSH15: Silver pennanular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Young Hare, 1502
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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