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c. 1170-1180:
Medieval Word Puzzles
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1700s-0000
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1100s:
Medieval cat’s paw prints on manuscript
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1338-1566:
Medieval Snowballs
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c. 1400:
Giant Snail Attacking a Knight
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1566:
The Librarian
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c.1500:
Capturing Hearts
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c. 1412:
Mooning Grape Picker
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1400s:
French Farmer with Bees, Elephant, Mushrooms, Stag and Tiny Aquatic Dragons
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c.1511-1514:
Henry VIII’s Horned Helmet
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1780s:
George Washington’s false teeth
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1671:
Surgical Appliances
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c.1740:
A Mantua Court Dress
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c.1601-1700:
Chinese Acupuncture Model
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c. 1450–1460:
Head of a Cleric
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c. 1590-1:
The Holy Roman Emperor painted as Vertumnus, Roman God of the seasons
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c. 2nd century BC–4th century AD:
Egyptian Twenty-sided Die
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1785:
George Biggins’ Ascent in Lunardi’ Balloon
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c.1498:
Statue of “Henry VIII as a child”
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c. 1600:
Surgical Instruments
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1520s:
Memento Mori
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1610:
Anatomical Theatre, Leiden
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ca. 1353–1336 B.C.:
Fragment of the face of a Queen
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c. 1600s:
The Netherlands as a Lion
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1400s:
The Infant Jesus in a Baby Walker
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1300s:
Rabbit Justice
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1489:
A demon firing a rifle
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1323:
Salome “breakdancing”
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1792:
Portrait of a Cross-Dresser
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1500s:
Joris Hoefnagel’s “The Four Elements”
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1360-65:
St John the Evangelist “smoking”
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1300s:
“Baseball”
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c.1500–1525:
Rosary
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c.1510-1547:
Henry VIII’s Hawking Glove and Hood
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17th Century:
Vanitas Bust
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1600s:
Jewelled Skeletons
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1000s-1300s:
Maps Before Maps