What does this phrase "cultured lay audience" mean in this context?

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Aimed at a "cultured lay audience", the text exists in several variant Latin versions.

This is discussing and old illustrated text from the medieval period.
 
usually a "lay person" is a person without any special or heightened knowledge about a particular thing....just a normal guy, your average Joe, in other words.

So, in this context, the text is aimed at a group of people who, while displaying a sense of decorum and intelligence, have just an average understanding of the topic at hand.

You often hear the expression, "in laymens' terms", meaning in language that your average person would understand.
 
you can have culture w/o education.
usually/often laymen applies to the congregation of a church or an audience at a rally/speach who aren't really peers of the speaker.
 
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