Cabinet - Sources

Chinese Alchemy
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Unique prints
Image for Proofs (left and centre) and published plate of ‘GRAMEN PANICEUM, ALOPECUROS, GRAMEN ALOPECUROIDES. TYPHOIDES, ET SPARTEUM.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 4).
Monk automaton, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Saami bride
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Meydancıkkale
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A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 28 1915
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Детские гольфы (Казахстан)
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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Sheldonian Ceiling
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
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‘Totem Poles’, an imaginary view of a Haida village by Louis Fairfax Muckley
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Writing Systems
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 53v
Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v
Automata
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Translating the five orders: John Thorpe, 1601
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Glory to Belgium
Gorytus-tip from Deve Hüyük (BM)
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Book Forms: Handscrolls
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