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Seventeenth-century writing desk with inkwell, quill and a bound manuscript, lit by one candle

the judges table

Our earliest systematic source was compiled to make prosecution possible. The book on the table is the reason we know anything, and the reason what we know is shaped the way it is.

Basis: Ruiz de Alarcón's treatise, 1629 · AI-generated

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