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- Pedanius Dioscorides, Kitab al-Hasha’ish (‘Book of Herbs’)
- A thirteenth-century medical case history
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- Book of Chinese poems bound in jade
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- Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'Inversnaid'
- Notebook of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Purcell, Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day
- Mary Shelley, draft of Frankenstein
- Kafka, The Judgement
- Kafka, The Metamorphosis
- Handel’s conducting score of Messiah
- T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- John Donne, 'To the Honourable lady, the Lady Carew'
- Robert Hooke, Micrographia
- Suwar al-Kawakib al-Thabitah ('Book of fixed Stars')
- 'Veins man' and 'Zodiac man' (treatise on medicine and the zodiac)
- Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae instauratae mechanica
- Euclid, Elements of geometry
- The Bakhshali Manuscript
- Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte
- Isaac Newton, Principia mathematica
- Magna Carta
- Letter from Mohandas Gandhi to Charles Andrews
- Harold Macmillan’s ‘Wind of Change’ speech
- ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ badges and box
- Letter from H.H. Asquith to Venetia Stanley
- Unofficial Cabinet journal of Lewis Harcourt
- Wilfred Owen, 'Anthem for Dead Youth'
- Sketch of early wireless experiment on the Solent
- Procès-verbal of the Virginian
- Titanic telegrams
- Dorothy Hodgkin, a postcard and a letter to her husband
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- Russian edition of Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers
- The first ten Penguin books
- Choriorama
- The first trade agreement between England and Japan
- William Shakespeare, 'The First Folio'
- Portrait of Sir Thomas Bodley by Nicholas Hilliard
- Letter from Henry III addressed to masters and scholars of Paris
- Document regarding the taxation of scholars’ dwellings in Oxford
- Agreement between Oxford University and the Stationers’ Company
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