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The
Parlor - Writing Slope.
Like many of the objects found in Barley Hall, this is based on documentary evidence -- in this case, a detailed room-by-room inventory of the possessions of William Snawsell's fellow-goldsmith and neighbor John Collan and on graphic evidence -- a contemporary Flemish painting of St. Jerome translating the Bible.
The oak writing slope has inkwells hollowed from the tips of cow horns.
Photo by Lynda Pidgeon. Used with permission.
