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 70 Collections and/or Records:
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
Charles and Thomas Frankland Legal Record Books, ca. 1740 - 1811
Collection
Identifier: MSS-89-3
Scope and Contents
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION & ARRANGEMENT
This collection contains two handwritten commonplace books compiled by two generations of lawyers in Bedale, Yorkshire, Charles and Thomas Frankland. Three of the functions of these volumes appear to be: to have available all information relevant to Frankland property (land, debtors, etc.); to have available a wide range of legal information, precedents, cases, forms of words, etc.; and to have available information about important clients and matters...
Dates:
ca. 1740-1811
Commonplace Book, ca. 1832 [Working Legal Manuscript]
Collection
Identifier: MSS-93-5
Scope and Contents
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION & ARRANGEMENT
This two volume commonplace book concerning property was written in several hands. One volume is signed, "Robert W. Mace, March, 1832." Sources include Sugden's Vendors and Purchasers of Estates and Burton's Treatise on Real Property.
Dates:
ca. 1832
Commonplace Book from Stannery Court Library, Wales, 1817
Collection
Identifier: MSS-84-10
Scope and Contents
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION & ARRANGEMENT
This commonplace book, written in 1817, contains abstracts from the sixth edition of Charles Fearne's An Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises edited by Charles Butler, and from the third edition of Francis Williams Sanders' An Essay on Uses and Trusts. It is in at least two hands and may have been written over a period of years.The volume came from...
Dates:
1817
Commonplace Book of I. Rowe, Jr., 1783 - 1786
Collection
Identifier: MSS-91-5
Scope and Contents
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION & ARRANGEMENT
This eighteenth commonplace book consists primarily of extracts from Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, volumes 1 and 2. Several additional pages are devoted to citations concerning inheritance and to legal maxims, all but one in Latin.
Dates:
1783-1786
Commonplace Book of Thomas Turner Fauntleroy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-92-2
Scope and Contents
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION & ARRANGEMENT
This commonplace book of precedents is arranged by subjects and contains citations from English and American sources. Written in more than one hand, apparently over a number of years. The end paper contains a list of law books owned by Turner on Jaunary 1, 1828.It is likely that Turner passed this book on to his son, Thomas Turner Fauntleroy, Jr., of Winchester, Virginia, who graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1844,...
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
Elizabeth Glover school annual
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-16464
Content Description
This collection contains "The Star" 1924 yearbook for ‘Grade 7B,’ handwritten by Buckingham County teacher, Mary Elizabeth Glover. Each page has a student's name and quotes and comments about them. Many pages include a small photograph of the child named.
Dates:
1924
Elizabeth Harvey common place book
Unprocessed — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2018-0052
Dates:
1854 - 1856