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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

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 1 Collection or Record:

Commonplace Book of Thomas Turner Fauntleroy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-92-2
Abstract

Handwritten precedent book with subjects in alphabetical order.

Dates: circa 1800-1900