Title Page, noting the various uses of the writing tablets

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An opening showing an erasable page--the tablet would have included a space to hold a stylus that could have been used for notetaking

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This writing table brings together reference information ideal for travelers, such as a calendar of fairs and holidays and descriptions of England’s highway system, with erasable blank pages for writing. Its compact size made it ideal for travelers or students. By the end of the sixteenth century the technology was ubiquitous enough to be referenced as a simile for memory by Hamlet, who promises to erase “the table of my memory.”