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Cabinet - Sources

Writing Systems
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Drawing of a warehouse
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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Recording stories and memories
‘Turkish Café, Tesanj’
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Ecclesiastical territories, 1648
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Банка с курдючным жиром (Казахстан)
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Рисовые поля (Казахстан/Кыргызстан)
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Tomb of Darius at Naqsh-e Rustam
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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The Oxford syllabus as circulus disciplinarum, 1635
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Trench Art Shell Case (3D)
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Jacob Bobart the Elder (c.1599-1680)
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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A Florentine Poetic Anthology (MS Can. Ital. 99)
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Japanese pillar clock
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Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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Children in uniform