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Commonplace book : manuscript
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A manuscript commonplace book, with text written in several different hands. The volume is written mostly in English but also contains French and German; though no country of origin is identified, it appears to be mainly British in subject. The text includes seven pages of index in the beginning of the volume; there are also rough drawings in pencil and pen, as well more finely executed pen and ink illustrations. The text covers an extraordinary range of subjects, including technical inventions and developments, animal husbandry, recipes, political comment, sports, current events, travel, medicinal cures, economics, wine, and many other topics. The volume is bound in late 18th century three-quarter calf gilt, red edges, with some wear to the binding.
mssHM 83388
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Commonplace book :
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Commonplace book with extracts from Classical authors such as Cicero, Seneca, Boethius and Ovid. Written possibly in Germany (two of the books bound with it were printed in Germany and the binding is German) in the late 15th or 16th centuries.
98651a
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Miss Fall's commonplace book and cookbook : manuscript
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Commonplace book containing lessons on cyphering and some excerpts of poetry and personal thoughts. Also includes culinary, cosmetic, medicinal and household recipes written in a different hand, but contemporary.
642098
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Commonplace book and journal
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The autograph manuscript contains short essays on political subjects and notes taken on a trip to Europe. The commonplace book includes quotes, short essays on various subjects, a genealogy of the Hatch family, and a list of "Vermont editions."
mssHM 41739-41740
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Commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour
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The commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour containing journal entries, newspaper clippings, stories, and pressed flowers. Some items date as early as 1837. The last entry is dated 1896.
mssHM 63807
Commonplace book
Manuscripts
Commonplace book containing two quotations from Shakespeare's Othello, along with passages and translations from classical texts, notes on classical and mythological figures, remedies, household hints and practical notes, theological notes and arguments, poems, epigrams and sententiae, legal forms, rentals for land around Kirby Knowle [North Yorkshire], and copies of letters and documents.
mssHM 60413