commonplace books
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: AAT: Books in which noteworthy literary passages, cogent quotations, poems, comments, recipes, prescriptions, and other miscellaneous document types are written.SAA: n. ~ A personal anthology of aphorisms, short passages from literature, poems, and other notes transcribed into a blank volume to serve the memory or reference of the compiler. Notes: Increasingly rare in the United States after the first quarter of the 20th century.
Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:
Amanda's commonplace book
Collection — Box BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16549
Scope and Contents
Amanda's commonplace book album consists of 13 pages used for inscriptions and verse, a majority of them with the location "Germantown [PA]." Amanda's full name is not known.
Dates:
1873 - 1875
Amelia's friendship album
Collection — Box BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16550
Content Description
Amelia's memory album and book of handwritten verse, approximately 6.5" x 4.75" brown leather bound with gilt decorated borders on covers and title on spine. It has marbled end papers. There are 46 pages used for inscriptions, verse, and literature, with a few dates in the range of 1823-1832.
Dates:
1823-1833
Bessie Marie Africa scrapbook
Unprocessed — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2019-0122
Dates:
1923 - 1927; Majority of material found within 1925
Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript
Collection — Box BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589275]
Identifier: MSS 16133
Scope and Contents
Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript (1851-1855; 0.03 cubic feet) includes copies of poetry, and cheerful passages belonging to Sarah Brown.
Dates:
1851-1855
Lottie E. Browne memory album
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16563
Dates:
1857 - 1859
Lucy Bruce friendship album
Collection — Box BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16547
Content Description
A ladies album belonging to Lucy Bradbury Bruce of Worcester County, Massachusetts which contains five engraved plates, sentiments from friends and family, three calligraphy drawings, and a watercolor theorem of a rose. Most of the well wishes are signed and dated, and many include locations. Predominately the locations and many of the signers are women including two of her sisters.
Dates:
1853 - 1868
Charles and Thomas Frankland Legal Record Books, ca. 1740 - 1811
Collection
Identifier: MSS-89-3
Abstract
Commonplace books with copies of promisory notes, receipts, indentures, affidavits, correspodence related to Frankland affairs.
Dates:
ca. 1740-1811
Commonplace Book, ca. 1832 [Working Legal Manuscript]
Collection
Identifier: MSS-93-5
Abstract
Manuscript concerning property law.
Dates:
ca. 1832
Commonplace Book from Stannery Court Library, Wales, 1817
Collection
Identifier: MSS-84-10
Abstract
Commonplace book manuscript in two or more hands containing abstracts from Fearne on Contigent Remedies, 6th edition and Saunders on Uses, 3rd edition.
Dates:
1817
Commonplace Book of I. Rowe, Jr., 1783 - 1786
Collection
Identifier: MSS-91-5
Abstract
Attorney's notes on Blackstone's Commentaries and the treatment of inherintance law.
Dates:
1783-1786
Commonplace Book of Thomas Turner Fauntleroy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-92-2
Abstract
Handwritten precedent book with subjects in alphabetical order.
Dates:
undated
Margaret Crockett album
Collection — Box BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899238]
Identifier: MSS 16320
Scope and Contents
Margaret Crockett album, MSS 16320, 1905-1933, 0.03 cubic feet is described as a commercial album with gold-stamped leather batting-stuffed covers and multi-colored gilt-edged pages, covered with a dull green hand-made fabric cover embroidered "M.C." in red thread. Front free endpaper reads "Margaret Crockett / July 1911," though one pasted entry is dated 1905 and the latest entry is from 1933. The initials RNS (Royal Naval School), is found scattered throughout the volume, as are the locations...
Dates:
1905-1933