Description of one wizard's chest

[hcobb]

This wizard's chest is a wooden box 2' x 1' x 3", and weighs 10 pounds as expected. The lid is on a hinge and opens mostly flat with a grid where the materials from the bottles from the squares in the bottom of the box can be used to lay out mystic patterns on the opened lid for casting. In addition there are candles that are removed from slots in the bottom of the box and put at the top corners of the opened lid, and then lit to work the magic.
You need a flat and fairly even surface of 4' x 2' to lay out the opened box and a spellbook.

Note that your local wizards probably do things in some other manner.