Commonplace-books
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 19 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 William H. Peyton
Item — Box CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2058
Content Description
Commonplace book of William H. Peyton, indexed, c. 80,000 words. Copious notebook kept some of the time when the writer was visiting France and Switzerland, with references to Darwin and Huxley, and an autobiography at p. 181. Dated 1893-1898.
Also includes enclosures (mainly newspaper clippings), gathered in one folder.
Dates:
1893-1898
Houstoun Family Album
Item — Box CLX-A-1595
Identifier: Coll-2013
Content Description
This is an album used as a sketchbook and a common-place book from the mid-19th century to the 1930s, created and compiled by two Scottish women of the same family. The first contributor is Caroline Elizabeth Houstoun (1840-1926), who filled the volume with well-spaced studies of landscapes and buildings in coloured pencil, pastel, and some watercolour. Some noteworthy sites include Inverness from the Castle, Edinburgh Castle, Euston Station in London, and Saint-Germain in Paris. The...
Dates:
1850s-1930s
Livre de Raison (Commonplace book)
Collection — Box CLX-A-354
Identifier: Coll-1854
Content Description
This outlandish and colourful manuscript volume is an exceptional resource to understand and study French popular culture in the late 18th-early 19th centuries. Its contents are extremely varied, and include poems, oracles, lyrics of popular songs, proverbs and maxims, recipes, legal document templates, a formulary of letters, calendars, little stories and anecdotes, an account of Napoleon's return to France after his exile on Elba, and a dictionary for the interpretation of dreams. It...
Dates:
c 1820-1830
Manuscript commonplace book compiled by M Massey, York Place
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1546
Scope and Contents
The commonplace book may have been the work of M. Massy, York Place, Edinburgh - the name inscribed in first page. The written material contains original and transcribed matter. It is bound in original decorative brown morocco with all page edges gilt. There are gilt inner dentelles with repeated flower and urn design. Gilt spine and cover designs. There are clipped illustrations showing: the Gile Callum broadsword dance; Scottish Games, Tossing the caber; Clan Cameron; Clan...
Dates:
1860-1870