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Finally, please take a look at the place of the book in this scene from the Pizan manuscript of around 1418.

It is a detail from the larger miniature we looked at earlier depicting Christine reading to her son, Jean.

The image shows us at least two aspects of book use in the late Middle Ages. The first being that the book was often read out loud to an audience,

What else can you deduce about books from this detail?

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