Commonplace-books
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 34 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
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 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
Commonplace book of Charles Greig McCrie (1836-1910), minister of Ayr West Free Church
Fonds
Identifier: MS MCC 4
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book belonging to Charles Greig McCrie, (1836-1910), Minister of Ayr West Free Church.
Volume is an A-Z ledger with handwritten entries. Some entries are quotes with citations, whilst others are notes about publications classified by theme.
McCries research interests are broadly theological, but also include references to romantic literature, social history, and philosophy. Many of the pages are blank.
Dates:
c.1900
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Commonplace book of Edith A. Vernon, 1859-1901
Item — Box CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0114
Scope and Contents
This interesting piece of Edinburgh educational history is a commonplace book composed in two periods, 1856 and from 1891-1901, from the teacher training college at Dairy House, Edinburgh and probably the Edinburgh Institution For The Education Of Young Ladies at 23, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh.1856 entries make up a leavers book with a charming large collection of signed and dated entries of verse quotations, well-wishes and original prose/verse in English, German & French...
Dates:
1859-1901
Commonplace book of Elizabeth Steuart, c 1780-1800
Item
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book of Elizabeth Steuart, Mainly theological, undated.
Dates:
c 1780-1800