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Commonplace book
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Commonplace book
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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
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Henry Stafford, Barron Stafford commonplace book: manuscript
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Includes extracts from chronicles, lists of noblemen, extracts from or notes on parliamentary statues, etc.
mssHM 202
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Commonplace book. English history: manuscript
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Extracts from the works of Francis Bacon, maxims of state, notes on a book of ancient history, etc.
mssHM 1728
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Commonplace book. English history: manuscript
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Extracts from medieval records about defense, including information about the general musters, the provision of ships for defense, the defense of the sea coast, and the use of beacons.
mssHM 30661
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Commonplace book. English law: manuscript
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Extracts from Year Books, abridgements of cases and decisions, law reports, precedents and formularies, notes on the Assize of Forests and other legal matters. Owned by and [partly in the hand of?] Sir John Port.
mssHM 46980
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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