Commonplace books.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books in which noteworthy literary passages, cogent quotations, poems, comments, recipes, prescriptions, and other miscellaneous document types are written.
Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:
Letters and papers of the Rev William Stevenson and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11421
Dates:
1810-1869.
Literary and personal papers of Christopher Rush, comprising manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, novels and other writings; journals; commonplace books; correspondence and other papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13217
Scope and Contents
The archive contains the complete literary papers of Christopher Rush to date (2010), relating to all his creative writing, published and unpublished. This includes manuscript notebooks and drafts, typescripts, and literary correspondence relating to `Peace Comes Dropping Slow` (1983), `A Resurrection of a Kind` (1984), `A Twelvemonth and a Day` (1985), `Into the Ebb` (1989), `Last Lesson of the Afternoon: a satire` (1994), `To Travel Hopefully: journal of a death not foretold` (2005),...
Dates:
1962-2010.
Manuscript commonplace book entitled "Fancy Gleanings".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9783
Dates:
circa 1818.
Microfilm of commonplace book chiefly containing historical materia
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1087
Dates:
17th century.
Microfilm of commonplace book of Robert Edward (1616-1696), minister of the Murroes
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.853
Dates:
[?1635-?1670.]
Microfilm of commonplace book of Sir John Wedderburn, physician (1599-1679).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.290
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.
Microfilm of commonplace book of William Drummond of Hawthornden, commencing with a collection of anecdotes, pasquils, jests, epitaphs, impresas, etc., entitled 'Democritie, a labyrinth of delight'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1269
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Microfilm of late 15th century manuscript, the commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.184
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Microfilm of papers, 1592-1654, of Sir James Balfour; and, sermons, 1660, of Presbyterian preachers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.361
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
“Order of King Charles’ entering Edinburghe in stait at ye vest porte, and his march trough the towne to Holyrood House 15 Junij 1633”, and notes on other ceremonies, by Sir James Balfour, in his own handwriting (Adv.MS.15.2.17);Notes, 1592-1606, of Sir James Balfour on the order of court dignitaries on ceremonial occasions. (Adv.MS.15.2.18);Collection of sermons, 1660, by Presbyterian preachers (Adv.MS.15.2.20);Commonplace...
Dates:
1592-1660.
Microfilm of two commonplace books and manuscript of a lecture.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.122
Dates:
1665-1693, [1759, or before].
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Miscellaneous manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1879-1887
Dates:
1623-19th century.
Newspaper cuttings album of Charles Geekie Matthew.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14213
Scope and Contents
Containing clippings collected during Matthew's time as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, on the subjects of sport, politics, and current affairs, with poetry and songs.
Dates:
1879-1885.
Notebook ruled for cash, which was used for legal notes, elementary French exercises and as a commonplace book (folios 2-12, 1-34 verso inverted). The entries, the latest of which is dated 1739, are written mostly in Byrom`s system of shorthand, which was not published until 1767.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.4
Scope and Contents
The owner, who remains unidentified, was a young man, probably of wealthy family, studying law, possibly at one of the Inns of Court in London. Pages have been torn out after folios 11, 12 and 13 inverted; folios 30-34 are written sideways. The volume, which was received without the original covers, was unintentionally rebound upside-down, and incorrectly labelled on the spine ‘French Commonplace Book’.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Notebooks of Christina Struthers, wife of Sir John Struthers, the anatomist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8900-8901
Dates:
1861-1875.
Papers and correspondence of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2510-2511
Dates:
1647-1845, undated.
Papers and correspondence of Cornelius and Robert Lundie, Ministers of Kelso.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1816-1818
Dates:
1745-1841.
Papers of Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11737/1-8
Scope and Contents
Includes commonplace books, diaries, books of etchings, sketchbooks and a manuscript "Remembrances of Woodhouselee".
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Papers of the Reid family of Mouswald.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14327
Content Description
The collection contains letters, 1838-76, to Sir James John Reid, Chief Justice of the Ionian Islands; letters, 1822-75, to Lady Reid; letters, 1859-1907, to their two sons, Robert T. Reid, Earl Loreburn, and John James Reid, advocate. There is also a folder of miscellaneous, mostly legal, documents concerning members of the family and dating mostly from the early 19th century. The collection also includes a commonplace book, dated 1839, of Sir James John Reid and a song book...
Dates:
1822-1907 and undated.
Photocopies of papers of John Buchan.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6542
Scope and Contents
Including:
1. corrected manuscripts of "Green Mantle" (1916), "The Three Hostages" (1924), "Montrose" (1928), "Memory-Hold-the-Door" (1940)
2. manuscript and typescript of "The Mountain", an unfinished novel
3. manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, 1904-1937
4. commonplace book, circa 1896
5. 30 letters, 1893-1940, of and to various correspondents, including Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, T E Lawrence, and Ezra Pound.
Dates:
1893-1940.
Photocopy of the cashbook, 1856-1858, of John Moffat.
File
Identifier: Acc.8862
Scope and Contents
With commonplace book, 18th to 19th century, containing recipes, scientific and professional data, and genealogical material.
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Photostats of manuscripts held in the Abbotsford Library, all in the hand of Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2229-2232
Dates:
1796-1797.