Why would a book designed to document property transactions contain images, too? What functions could they have served?
Why would the artist of the "big book" have depicted the king consulting his archivist in the very first image? How does he depict the relationship between them? Why does he include a group of men as witnesses to their discussion?
Women figure prominently in many of the book's images, including the one below. on what basis could you argue that their active presence is crucial to the transactions being described?

ch 09 - western civilization