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Commonplace book
c.1719-1742
Contains Latin and English prose and poetry in several hands, c.1719-1742 or earlier, the main verse hand probably of the 1730s. Flyleaf recto "An account of the Beans", verso "Quaestiones quarum ment...
Commonplace book
c.1716-c.1736
Diary of important public and private events, 1 August 1714 to May 1728; single satirical verse item, "The British ambassadress's speech to the French king"; notes of account and payment, 3 January 17...
Berkeley's commonplace book
Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Johnston, G A (1888-)
1930
"The text of this edition is based on a careful examination of the manuscript (British museum Add. Ms. 39305) by Mr. A. J. Watson."--Editor's pref.
Poetical commonplace book
c.1715
Poems transcribed on ff.2r-39v include five by Prior, three each by Waller and Isaac Watts, two each by Swift, Pope (1 unattributed), Motteux and Marvell, and one each by Ambrose Philips, Laurence Eus...
Commonplace book containing extracts copied from accounts, books and lectures
c.1725-1775
Includes commercial accounts (mostly related to the shipping of commodities such as wheat); copies of contracts; statistical extracts from the Annual Register; and notes on various books including Tho...
Philosophisches Tagebuch (commonplace book)
Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Hecht, Andreas (1903-)
1926
At head of title: Berkeley.
Medical commonplace book, including a catalogue of the books in the Medical Library at the Leeds General Infirmary
1783-1799
Bound with boards and a vellum backstrip which is partly lost through damage. Comprises extracts on various subjects, but chiefly medical, written between 1783 and 1799, as follows: ff. 1-4, An obs...
Account book and commonplace book relating to the coal industry, ca.1700-1720, by Joshua Arthington
Arthington, Joshua
c.1700-1720
Contents: (1) [f. 1r] Accounts for getting coal, notes of agreement for sinking pits etc., at Farnley, 1710-1720; (2) [f. 129v] Accounts of a similar nature, 1711-1714; (3) [f. 155v] Commonplace-book ...
Commonplace book, chiefly of English poems
c.1720-1748
Commonplace book, almost entirely of English verse and prose. Most poems are anonymous. Some prose tales, scenes from plays, and a few Latin lines. On p.211: "I ended this book Novr 13th 1723"; prose ...
Commonplace book belonging to Thomas Eskricke
Eskricke, Thomas
c.1710-c.1748
Contains mainly veterinary preparations, but also notes on farming, as follows: (1) ff.1-15, veterinary preparations, ca.1710-ca.1748; (2) ff.24-19 (inverted), mathematical examples; (3) f.18v, sundry...