By bureaucracy, I don't mean annoying paperwork, though there was some of that, but regularity and predictability of procedure. /1
It's housed @theULSpecColl. There are others at @JTSVoice and @egyptlibrary. /2
This makes me sad, though it has also helped me kill hours that would otherwise have been consumed with pandemic anxiety./3
The process would have looked like this: /6
Nearly 200 such receipts have survived, all laid out identically. lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/de… /12