Commonplace-books
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace book of Elizabeth Steuart, c 1780-1800
Item
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book of Elizabeth Steuart. Mostly theological, undated.
Dates:
c 1780-1800
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
Daily and Travel Journals , 1818 - 1830
Series
Identifier: Coll-203/A2
Scope and Contents
A set of 6 early Notebooks, established by Lyell to record his prose and verse, as well as a trip with his family to Europe, and solo trips in the UK.
Dates:
1818 - 1830
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
Manuscript scrapbook volume of E. M. G. Colquhoun containing anecdotes, stories, poems, music and pen and ink illustrations
Item — Box CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1805 / SC-Acc-2017-0037
Identifier: Coll-1805
Content Description
This ms scrapbook volume of E. M. G. Colquhoun is dated, Edinburgh, 17 September 1838, at the top of a preface. The volume is in two parts; the whole item containing anecdotes, stories, poems, music and pen and ink illustrations of monuments, seals, antiques, animals, and characters.From the beginning of the scrapbook, written by Colquhoun on the 17th of September 1838: "It had always been my chief wish, from my childhood upwards, that I might have a scrap-book of my own, to be...
Dates:
17 September 1838
Manuscript volume. A birthday gift, Mary Catherine Tracy, c. 1864
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1482
Scope and Contents
A manuscript volume written in black ink, with illuminated headings and initials. The volume of 131pp had been illustrated and sketched, according to the seller's notes, by Agnes L. Tracy and Isabel M. W. Tracy. It is bound in green cloth, and the front cover bears the initials MCT in gilt. There are seven illustrations and these are signed with the initials 'A.L.T'. and one is numbered '64', which may be the date 1864. The volume opens with a 'Dedication' beginning: These to our Mary ,...
Dates:
1863-1865
Material relating to the University studies of James K. Watson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1321
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook or album (commonplace book) contains class cards, class certificates, notes and other printed matter relating to the study period of James Kenneth Watson at Edinburgh University - covering 1888-91, and subjects such as Chemistry, Practical Chemistry, Anatomy, Practical Anatomy, Anatomical demonstrations, Botany, Natural History, Institutes of Medicine, Practical Physiology, Practical Pathology, Practical Materia Medica, including Pharmacy, Materia Medica, General Pathology,...
Dates:
1885-1896
Medical Commonplace Book of George Brock
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1124
Scope and Contents
The volume has the armorial book-plate of George Brock M.D. (Georgius Brock M.D.). The text in the volume begins with a quotation from Cullen, so the author of the manuscript was doubtless a follower or student of Cullen whose name is invoked several times subsequently. To begin with the text is concerned with materia medica and the nutritional qualities of foodstuffs. later the text is more various, with topics including physiology and also asphyxiation. A dispute within the Royal College...
Dates:
1820