Commonplace-books
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
2 Common-place books with medical receipts and prescriptions, and with gardening hints
Fonds — Box CLX-A-622
Identifier: Coll-1555
Scope and Contents
The common-place books are written in the same hand, largely, and are described as:
1 x common-place book, small 4to, with 174pp numbered, dating from 1817-1837, though a later style of handwriting on last unnumbered 4 pp feature the date 1849. Original lightly diced Russia, lacking spine. Manuscript medical receipts, prescriptions. Entries feature named Scottish doctors or Scottish periodicals. An...
Dates:
1810-1860
2 Victorian commonplace books 1850s
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1550
Scope and Contents
One volume is covered in green binding, and is dated 25 December 1852. It is 'Mother's Christmas Book'. The first page is decorated with mistletoe. Subsequent pages are decorated with floral and natural themes. Some of the drawings are initialed 'HP'. There are lines entitled, 'The Elswick villains', 'To a soot flake', 'A legend of Marsden rocks', 'A paragraph on poetry', 'The Hanoverian brothers', 'The policeman's soliloquy', and 'A dream'. A second volume is covered in maroon...
Dates:
1852
Album of verses, sketches, etc. presented to Mary Goudy
Fonds — Volume Dk.8.1
Identifier: Coll-2243
Scope and Contents
Album of verses, sketches, etc. Inscribed 'Presented to Mary Goudy by her affectionate uncle John Carson'. Watermark dated 1833.
Dates:
1833
Collection of poems by Andrew Ross
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2960
Scope and Contents
Volume of poems authored between October 1830 and January 1834. Stylised title page, which reads:
"The (poetical)
SCRAP BOOK
Begun November 9th 1830
No 20 Monteith Row Glasgow
Andrew Ross"Most poems are fair copies, accompanied by a note regarding the date of their original composition and of their later transcription. The subject matter is varied and often inspired by views and events that Ross witnesses, including a walk along the Cargen...
Dates:
9 November 1830 - 6 May 1834
Common-place book of Harriet Holmes, 1818
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1415
Scope and Contents
No place of origin recorded. 1818-1820 4to., 98 pages (approx. 14,000 words) pen and ink drawings, entirely Holograph neat sloping hand, in contemp. red straight grain morocco, marbled paper sides, light wear. This Commonplace Book commenced at the very end of 1818 and continued only for a few months gives an interesting indication of the interests of a young woman in her early twenties. The subjects are mostly copied and mostly on topical subjects. They include articles on a...
Dates:
1818-1820
Common-place book of original lyric verse
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1414
Scope and Contents
87 poems many adorned with pen and ink drawings and a few with attractive watercolour all relative to the text. No hint of place of origin.
Quarto. Manuscript written throughout in a neat hand imitating typeface. 120pp. A purpose produced 'album' volume in red calf, gilt, gilt border, and marbled edges.
Dates:
1827-1839
Common-place book of S. H., with poems, epitaphs etc, from various sources, c. 1809-1810
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1683
Scope and Contents
Small quarto, 43pp, in the original marbled paper covered wrappers. There are pieces written by Mason, and by Thomson. Others are taken from the Edinburgh Magazine and the Morning Post. Titles include, 'A Fragment', 'To a Lady on her Birthday', 'On a Lady who died in Childbirth 1778', 'The parting Lover', 'Woe', 'An inscription on the tomb of one Margaret Sect who died at Selkirk 12 miles from Newcastle 1728', and 'On Conjugal...
Dates:
1809-1810
Commonplace-book and other family material relating to Rev. William Henderson Begg
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1517
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
1 x commonplace book from c.1900: autograph manuscript, 155pp, which also have enclusures (notes, ephemera). Subjects include: art, aesthetic religion, creeds, calvinism, darwinism, equality, love, missions, Puritan, personality, Rome, reason, and scepticism
There are also:
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Dates:
1900-1957
Commonplace book entitled 'Fugitive Pieces', collected by Richard Gall (1776–1801)
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2935
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book of Richard Gall, made up of clippings with occasional manuscript notes. Initial entries focus on the recent death of Robert Burns (1759-1796), but branch out into examples of Burns' work, and poems by other authors that centre generally on Scottish life and the city of Edinburgh.Identifiable authors and subjects of their work:
E. [Ellen] Hyslop (1766-1852)William Roscoe (1753-1831)Edward Rushton (1756-1814)Eaglesfield...
Dates:
1649-1799
Commonplace Book of Brian Fairfax
Fonds — Volume Dk.5.25
Identifier: Coll-2201
Scope and Contents
Fairfax (B.) Commonplace book of Brian Fairfax, containing his "Iter Boreale" etc.
- "Iter Boreale", an account of his mission to George Monck in 1659. Ff.9-29.
- A letter of Ferdinando, 2nd Baron Fairfax to his son, Thomas, about portraits by a servant of Sir Anthony Van Dyck. F.2.
- Extracts from anti-papistical literature. 82 ff.
Dates:
c 1646