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Here are commonplace books, antique blankets, textile sample books, needlework portfolios and fabric swatches.

For Hamilton, text and textiles are intimately linked, though the connection she proposes through her display between historical commonplace books and textile ephemera can feel tenuous — commonplace books (personal collections) involve a more idiosyncratic act of assembling information than the precision seen in the textile catalogues (commercial tools).

The books of quotations that rarely let you down are commonplace books, those intellectual scrapbooks made for personal use and compiled by a single avid reader.

Here, a long shelf holds boxes of textile fragments arranged for their use in classes taught at Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (now Philadelphia University); 26 wool and linen bedcovers and bed cases from the late 18th and early 19th centuries adorn an entire wall; numerous metal display cases, designed by the artist to look like canopy beds, are filled with commonplace books (collections of literary quotations or occasional thoughts), fabric swatch books, lace samplers, thread catalogues, dolls, needles, and weaving shuttles; and two shelves are lined with pages of quotes sourced by the artist through a Tumblr page.

At least 10 of her commonplace books are still in existence. Although some argue that only nine of them are attributable to Rose.

Some yearbooks contain a few pages which will be left blank for people to write messages about the preceding year and summer. This tradition was inherited from commonplace books.

Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783-1785 is the first of three commonplace books that were produced by the poet. The contents cover drafts of songs and poems, observations, ideas, epitaphs, etc.

The Blank Book (Harper Collins, March 2004, ) is the first of two commonplace books in the Unfortunate Events franchise. It is a 176-page hardcover journal.The Blank Book. Retail product page. Amazon.com.

The Notorious Notations (February 2006, ) is the second of two commonplace books in the Unfortunate Events franchise. It is also 176 pages long, hardcover and contains quotations from the books and illustrations by Brett Helquist.The Notorious Notations. Retail product page. Amazon.com.

They remained in Pennsylvania until donated to the New-York Historical Society in 1906, where most of them currently reside. Some books have extensive marginalia. In addition, six commonplace books survive in his papers at the New-York Historical Society.

The Crafts Study Centre, Farnham holds the Robin and Heather Spackman collection which includes personal documents; correspondence; sketches, drawings, prints and etchings by Robin and Heather; notebooks and commonplace books kept by Heather; travel journals; and written work by Heather.

By the seventeenth century, commonplacing had become a recognized practice that was formally taught to college students in such institutions as Oxford. John Locke appended his indexing scheme for commonplace books to a printing of his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The commonplace tradition in which Francis Bacon and John Milton were educated had its roots in the pedagogy of classical rhetoric, and “commonplacing” persisted as a popular study technique until the early twentieth century. Commonplace books were used by many key thinkers of the Enlightenment, with authors like the philosopher and theologian William Paley using them to write books.

Hay's interests included poetry, trivia and the local volunteer corps. The scrapbooks were maintained in parallel with commonplace books. The scrapbooks and other papers were given by Hay's daughter Mary, after his death, to Francis Robert Raines. Hay had a numismatic collection.

Lyman Day and their daughter Cornelia, dated c. 1823–1824, is in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum. Her two commonplace books descended in the family, but have been committed to microfilm by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.

Both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were taught to keep commonplace books at Harvard University (their commonplace books survive in published form). However, it was also a domestic and private practice which was particularly attractive to authors. Some, such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mark Twain and Virginia Woolf kept messy reading notes that were intermixed with other quite various material; others, such as Thomas Hardy, followed a more formal reading-notes method that mirrored the original Renaissance practice more closely. The older, "clearinghouse" function of the commonplace book, to condense and centralize useful and even "model" ideas and expressions, became less popular over time.

John Syme's comment on W.R. being an .. inexperienced moralist on page 15. The poet died on 21 July 1796 and the manuscript was at that time at Ellisland Farm. In January 1797 both Commonplace books were sent to Dr James Currie in Liverpool who used some of this material in his The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Explanatory and Glossarial Notes; And a Life of the Author which was he published in four volumes in 1800. Both of the Commonplace books remained with Dr Currie as did the other material, such as the Glenriddell Manuscripts. Shortly before his death in 1805 it narrowly escaped being burnt.

Ecclesiarum insuper Cathedralium Priores, Decani, Thesaurarii, Præcentores, Cancellarii, Archidiaconi, et melioris notæ Canonici continua serie deducti a Gulielmi I conquæstu ad auspicata Gul. III tempora, 935. # Diaries and Accounts (chiefly commonplace books), 936, 937. # An Alphabetical Catalogue of English Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons, &c.;, from the 12th to the 17th century, 962.

Robert Burns's three Commonplace books, 1783 to 1785, a second 1787 to 1790 and a third 1789 to 1794. are personal compilations of early drafts of songs, prose and some poetry as well as observations on people, places and ideas. Copies of poetry, excerpts from books, quotations, moral, religious and philosophical, contemplative, etc. are included.

She kept a journal from 1771 until 1815. Within these journals she recorded every book she read and collected passages from those books in a series of voluminous commonplace books. They also included other things she valued or needed. She kept financial records of estate business, alongside her annual reading lists of literature, philosophy, history, and natural science.

Retrieved 2012-04-16. Commonplace books are used in the series by many protagonists, including the Quagmire family, Jacques Snicket and Klaus Baudelaire, to write notes on their experiences and discoveries. The bottom of each page is printed with quotations from A Series of Unfortunate Events and illustrations by Brett Helquist. There is also a sheet of Unfortunate Events stickers.

Much material collected by Hay was added to scrapbooks. Manuscripts, commonplace books and scrapbooks (18 volumes) went to Chetham's Library. Other manuscripts came into the hands of A. P. Wadsworth, whose daughter Janet gave them in 1957 to the John Rylands Library. These scrapbooks, mostly consisting of newspaper cuttings, are in some ways comparable with those of the Yorkshire antiquarian and diarist Dorothy Richardson (1748–1819).

These collections have been used by modern scholars as a source for interpreting how merchants and artisans interacted with the literature and visual arts of the Florentine Renaissance. The best-known zibaldone is Giacomo Leopardi's nineteenth-century Zibaldone di pensieri, however it significantly departs from the early modern genre of commonplace books and is rather comparable to the intellectual diary which was practiced, for example, by Lichtenberg, Joubert, Coleridge, Valery, among others.

In the 15th century, commonplace books, popular in England, emerged as a way to compile information that included recipes, quotations, letters, poems and more. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests. Friendship albums became popular in the 16th century. These albums were used much like modern day yearbooks, where friends or patrons would enter their names, titles and short texts or illustrations at the request of the album's owner.

A greater proportion of the Cwrtmawr manuscripts are from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but there is, nonetheless, also a reasonable number of sixteenth and seventeenth century manuscripts. The collection is predominantly of Welsh literary interest and contains a variety of different material including: religious works such as sermons and hymns, volumes of annotated press cuttings, holograph letters, diaries and journals, account books, pedigrees, commonplace books, recipes, dictionaries, music, and notes on philology and bibliography.

Each one is unique to its creator's particular interests but they almost always include passages found in other texts, sometimes accompanied by the compiler's responses. They became significant in Early Modern Europe. "Commonplace" is a translation of the Latin term locus communis (from Greek tópos koinós, see literary topos) which means "a general or common topic", such as a statement of proverbial wisdom. In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as John Milton's example.

A commonplace book from the mid-17th century Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century. Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces are used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts.

Retirement: In his later years, Crichton-Browne passed lengthy interludes at the Dumfries home ("Crindau", on the River Nith) which he had inherited from his father. Here, he worked on a number of projects, including a notable study of Robert Burns' medical problems,Crichton-Browne, James (1925) Burns from a New Point of View London:Hodder and Stoughton. and seven volumes of memoirs, drawing on his personal commonplace books, and ranging widely over medical, psychological, biographical and Scottish themes.Crichton- Browne, James (1926) Victorian Jottings London: Etchells and Macdonald.

Welcome to Night Vale is a podcast presented as a radio show for the fictional town of Night Vale, reporting on the strange events that occur within it. The series was created in 2012 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Published by Night Vale Presents since March 15, 2015, the podcast was previously published by Commonplace Books. Cecil Gershwin Palmer—the host, main character, and narrator—is voiced by Cecil Baldwin, while secondary characters are sometimes voiced by guest stars—such as Dylan Marron, who voices Carlos.

When Dulness chooses her new king, she settles on Bays, who is seen in his study surveying his own works: The base of Cibber's pile of sacrificed books is several commonplace books, which are the basis of all his own productions. Although Cibber confesses: The accidental common sense was The Careless Husband. When Cibber casts about for new professions, he, unlike Theobald in 1732, decides, "Hold—to the Minister I more incline;/ To serve his cause, O Queen! is serving thine" (I 213–214).

Sharp's writing draws from accepted > medical knowledge of the time, suggesting she was well read in scientific > and medical publications. By writing in the vernacular, she conveyed > surgical and pharmacological techniques to women training to be midwives, so > that they need not always depend on male physicians when birthing > complications or emergencies arose. Sharp also employs the technique of > commonplacing, a familiar science-writing practice of the time. Similar to > scrapbooks and commonplace books included information on other memorable > sources, along with notes, quotations, tables and drawings.

A collection of commonplace books was discovered at Shardloes in 1643, but was first identified with William Tothill, who had served as steward to Francis Bacon. As such they were purchased by C. K. Ogden, who left them to University College, London. They were identified as Drake's in 1976. With other materials from the collections, manuscripts that have been identified subsequently, and some of Drake's books that have survived with annotations, Sharpe has called Drake's legacy "the greatest archival resource we have to chart how an early modern English gentleman read".

Chronologically this collection begins with a fine group of English literary manuscripts from the 15th century including Thomas Hoccleve's poems (1410) which contain a celebrated portrait of Chaucer. There is a major manuscript of the Canterbury Tales and a noble fragment of another illustrated version. A small and equally choice collection of books of the pre-Elizabethan and Elizabethan period is complemented by a collection of commonplace books. There is an extremely rare first edition of Pilgrim's Progress which was first owned by one of Bunyan's acquaintances from debtors' prison.

His most recent release is Them and Us (2018). Another song, called "Bill and Annie", was featured in episode 3 of the podcast "Welcome to Night Vale", made by Commonplace Books. Several of his songs have appeared in films and documentaries on ESPN, NPR, NFL Films, PBS, and ABC's "Good Morning America," and the Dr. Demento show. "Moe Berg: The Song" is featured in the film “Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story.” "Whitey & Harry" is featured in “A Baseball Life” (Produced by The Philadelphia Phillies about Richie Ashburn).

Only a handful of works by Goldsmith have been identified, most of them watercolors either on paper or on ivory, although she is known to have produced pictures in oil as well. She produced numerous portraits as well as commonplace books, the latter filled with decorative images, illustrated copies of prints, and a mourning picture in addition to poetry and other writings. She also left behind her worktable and a tin paint box. An 1832 portrait of Permilia Forbes Sweet by Goldsmith is owned by the Fenimore Art Museum, while her portrait of Mr. and Mrs.

Hill wrote a life of Isaac Barrow for the first volume of his Works, published in 1683, and reissued in subsequent editions. A selection from Hill's correspondence was edited by Thomas Astle as Familiar Letters which passed between A. Hill and several eminent and ingenious persons of the last century, London, 1767. The manuscript of this correspondence, together with other papers of Hill and his father, is preserved among the Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum, where are also ten volumes of Hill's commonplace books, his official memoranda as commissioner of trade, and his letters to Sir Hans Sloane, 1697–1720.

In 1791, however, Elizabeth could no longer afford the upkeep of the property and was forced to sell. For the final ten years of her life, Elizabeth lived with friends and wrote voraciously, publishing some of her poetry and participated in the writing of commonplace books with a number of her female acquaintances, such as Hannah Griffitts. She died in 1801, while being tended to by Benjamin Rush, very close to Graeme Park.Ann M. Ousterhout, The Most Learned Woman in America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.

Precursors to the commonplace book were the records kept by Roman and Greek philosophers of their thoughts and daily meditations, often including quotations from other thinkers. The practice of keeping a journal such as this was particularly recommended by Stoics such as Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, whose own work Meditations (2nd century AD) was originally a private record of thoughts and quotations. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, a courtier in tenth and eleventh century Japan is likewise a private book of anecdote and poetry, daily thoughts and lists. However, none of these includes the wider range of sources usually associated with commonplace books.

Orazio Borgianni, detail of The Vision of St Jerome, standing on a limp vellum bound book with fore-edge ties. Limp vellum bindings for commonplace books were being produced at least as early as the 14th century and probably earlier, but it was not usually common until the 16th and 17th centuries. Its usage subsequently declined until "revived by the private presses near the end of the 19th century." From about 1775 to 1825, limp leather was commonly used for pocket books, but by the 1880s limp bindings came to be largely restricted to devotional books, diaries, and sentimental verse, sometimes with yapp edges.

One of the most characteristic features of humanistic pedagogy was the practice of keeping notebooks; schoolboys were encouraged to compile commonplace books for reference use when they could read and write reasonably accurately. Ratio Studiorum lavishes praise on notebook practice. Like numerous humanistic teaching programmes, it suggests tha students should excerpt sentences, proverbs, similes and other literary elements, write them down in a notebook and memorise them. According to Gothus, a schoolboy should begin at the age of eight with moral sentences of Publilius Syrus, Terence, Seneca, Cato and Cicero; at the age of ten, he should be introduced to sentences by Greek authors, first in Latin translations, later in the original Greek version.

For women, who were excluded from formal higher education, the commonplace book could be a repository of intellectual references. The gentlewoman Elizabeth Lyttelton kept one from the 1670s to 1713 and a typical example was published by Mrs Anna Jameson in 1855, including headings such as Ethical Fragments; Theological; Literature and Art. Commonplace books were used by scientists and other thinkers in the same way that a database might now be used: Carl Linnaeus, for instance, used commonplacing techniques to invent and arrange the nomenclature of his Systema Naturae (which is the basis for the system used by scientists today). The commonplace book was often a lifelong habit: for example the English-Australian artist Georgina McCrae kept a commonplace book from 1828-1865.

While some projects focus on creating online editions of the most significant verse miscellanies, others have attempted to arrange a corpus of miscellanies produced in set periods, such as Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online (2006-2009), a digital archive of manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books from c. 1450-1720. The largest undertaking by far has been The Digital Miscellanies Index, an ongoing project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The Index seeks to create a freely available online database of the 1000-plus verse miscellanies published in the 18th century, based on a comprehensive bibliography compiled by Michael F. Suarez, and supplied by the world’s single largest collection of miscellanies held in The Bodleian Library’s Harding Collection.The Bodleian Library, 'Ragtime to riches, a musical legacy at the Bodleian Library'.

Recent scholarship has shown how women of the period used commonplace books as a method of creating a private, informal historical record of their own era. Some 60 of Griffitts' poems are included in her second cousin Milcah Martha Moore's commonplace book, a compilation of poetry and prose that was first published in 1997 under the title Milcah Martha Moore's Book. Under the pen name 'Fidelia' (derived from the Latin fidelitas meaning 'faithfulness' or 'loyalty'), Griffitts is one of the three dominant contributors to Moore's commonplace book, along with Susanna Wright and Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, whose salon at Graeme Park was one of the literary centers of Philadelphia. Apparently, Griffitts used this pseudonym only when sending out clean copies of her poems; she signed her letters with her real name, and her own rough drafts often carry her initials.

An example of a commonplace book from the mid 17th century Women of the period used commonplace books as a method of creating a private, informal historical record of their own era, collecting in them aphorisms, quotations, advice, poems, letters, reminiscences, recipes, and other materials of personal significance. Many of these women either found difficulty getting their work published or did not want to make their work public, so they circulated their writings in manuscript, forming what has been termed a "third sphere" of discourse, neither fully public nor fully private. Moore's own commonplace book, which she called "Martha Moore's Book", focused on poetry written by women in her circle and included over 125 poems (some of them quite long) by more than a dozen writers. The exact number of contributors is uncertain because some of the women are represented under pseudonyms or initials, not all of which have been securely connected to known individuals.

Gray was a keen student of medieval history, and in time came to make a particular study of the oldest Welsh poetry, though without actually learning the language. Several pages of his commonplace books are devoted to notes on Welsh prosody, and he also mentioned there a legend, now considered quite unhistorical, which he had come across in Thomas Carte's A General History of England (1747–1755). When Edward I conquered Wales, "he is said", wrote Gray, "to have hanged up all their Bards, because they encouraged the Nation to rebellion, but their works (we see), still remain, the Language (tho' decaying) still lives, and the art of their versification is known, and practised to this day among them". Gray also studied early Scandinavian literature, and found in one Old Norse poem the refrain "'Vindum vindum/ Vef Darradar'", which was to reappear in The Bard as "Weave the warp and weave the woof".

And we are left in sorrow to lament This heavy loss with fear what will ensue; But He which us this great affliction sent In deepest woes, His mercy did renew: Our Sun no sooner set, and doleful night Seemed to threaten some disaster strange, A glorious Star with splendor shining bright Expelled those fears: our grief, to mirth, did change. One of Anne Ley's poems, "Upon the necessity and benefite of learning ... to W.B. a young scholler," was presumably written for one of her students, advising him on the importance of keeping a commonplace book. Stevenson and Davidson comment that this poem "sheds some interesting light on how one of the ‘commonplace books’ which survive in quantity from the seventeenth century was supposed to be used by its compiler." Upon the necessity and benefite of learning written in the beginning of a Common place booke belonging to W.B. a young scholler As from each fragrant sweet the honey Bee Extracts that moisture is of so much use; Like careful labour I commend to thee; Which if performed much profit will produce.

According to the botanist Peter Collinson, who visited the physic garden in July 1764 and recorded his observation in his commonplace books, Miller "has raised the reputation of the Chelsea Garden so much that it excels all the gardens of Europe for its amazing variety of plants of all orders and classes and from all climates..." He wrote The Gardener's and Florists Dictionary or a Complete System of Horticulture (1724) and The Gardener's Dictionary containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen Fruit and Flower Garden, which first appeared in 1731 in an impressive folio and passed through eight expanding editions in his lifetime and was translated into Dutch by Job Baster. Miller corresponded with other botanists, and obtained plants from all over the world, many of which he cultivated for the first time in England and is credited as their introducer. His knowledge of living plants, for which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, was unsurpassed in breadth in his lifetime.Frans A. Stafleu, reviewing the facsimile of The Gardeners Dictionary in Taxon 18.6 (December 1969:713–715) p 713.