A Display of Manuscripts on Reading Desks.details

A Display of Manuscripts on Reading Desks.

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We see open manuscript (hand-written) books on desks; it is not clear whether the books were for sale or whether this was a library or perhaps a room in a monastery or convent. There are two people at left, entering the room, one wit what appears to be a staff of office and perhaps a heavy purse at his side, suggesting a purchase.

This is i think Cotton Tiberius A7British Museum, in the British Museum, which contained eight separate manuscripts bound together in quarto, totalling 167 sheets, according to an old catalogue.

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