This looks more like half Scriptorium and half peasant's kitchen. The reading stand is competing with the cauldron for dominance of the room, flanked by a table holding piles of papers.
Most of the papers are letters, signed by Pralix and other likely magi. There is a book, in Latin, called conversations with Pralix, and dated around his time.
There is a pot of ink, more than half full, but the ink is completely dry, and the quills crumble to dust at the lightest touch.