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Timepieces (Solar System) - Katie Paterson, 2014.
© The University of Edinburgh.
Anglo-Saxon Charter Granting Lands to the Monks of Winchester, 854 A.D.
© The University of Edinburgh.
McBeath Gaelic Medical Manuscript, 16th century.
© The University of Edinburgh.
Anatomy Museum in the University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place. 1898.
© The University of Edinburgh.
Front cover of The Student, 2nd November, 1972.
© The University of Edinburgh.