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Writing Law – The Law Office
Illustrations to law textbooks sometimes also offer a glimpse of the material culture of law, as found in early modern law offices. In this mid-seventeenth-century Dutch work, a lawyer can be seen at his desk, surrounded by shelved books and an archive of document bags hanging from hooks on the ceiling.
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