Commonplace books
Subject
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Fonds
Commonplace Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5779
Scope and Contents
Alphabetical index to latin terms compiled by Robert Stonehouse. Also used as a commonplace book by William Balam, Registrar of the Diocese of Ely. Includes drafts of copies of letters, some concerning land disputes in and around Ely.
Dates:
1681-1711
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Commonplace book / heads of sermons, Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.05
Scope and Contents
(1) Commonplace book consisting of Greek and Latin sentences extracted from various authors; also a note, 'Sebast. Barradas. Itinerarium filiorum Israel ex Ægypto; (2) Heads of sermons (commencing from the other end of the book, reversed).
Dates:
Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Commonplace book with extracts of writings by Michel de Montaine and other writers, Late seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.43
Scope and Contents
Contents include: collections from 'Mountaine his Essayes'; collections from 'The Historye of Scanderbegge'; collections from 'Charron, de Sapientiâ'; collections from 'Sleiden's Comentaries'; 'Collections out of Perkins'; 'Collections out of the Vocall Forist'; 'Collections out of Donne's Lettres'; 'Excerpta ex Marcelli Paling: Signis Yodiacis'.
Dates:
Late seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Commonplace books
Series
Reference Code: GBR/3437/WMLK/5
Scope and Contents
Commonplace books, derived from the Latin locus communis, were a form of intellectual scrapbook where interesting facts and observations could be compiled by the author.
Fonds
Elizabeth Lyttelton: Commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8460
Scope and Contents
A manuscript commonplace book, 87 leaves, containing poetical extracts, prose fragments and religious aphorisms and verse, written from both ends of the volume. The book was kept for the benefit of the daughters of Sir Thomas Browne, and was principally the property of his daughter Elizabeth. It contains pieces by and relating to Sir Thomas Browne, including a poem and piece of prose by him, although none of the writing is in Browne's hand. The name of his daughter Mary (d. 1676) is written...
Dates:
1680 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Francis Rolfe: Verse commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8684
Scope and Contents
A bound verse commonplace book with the initials 'F.R.' on the cover.
Dates:
1637 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Henry Rainsford: Commonplace Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8447
Scope and Contents
Academic notes and a collection of contemporary verses by Henry King, Sydney Dodolphin and others, copied in Oxford.
Dates:
1643-1645 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Notebooks, 1623 - 1635
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.16-MS Dd.02.20
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous notes, rhymes, poems, cabalistic formulae and other miscellanea, all by the same author.
Dates:
1623 - 1635
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Religious commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3117
Scope and Contents
Autograph, and (?) in hand of John Saxby. The volume was originally used for accounts by the Saxbys as executors to John Scotchford (d. 30 Dec. 1600) of Brenchley, Kent. The accounts continue to 1610, and are entered on fos 1-7v, 10v-11v, 13, 17, 27, 29, 31, 34, and 54. Fos 56v onwards were subsequently used by Robert Saxby to record pious discourses, chapters of the Bible (including most of the Book of Judith), sermons copied from printed editions, extracts from John Downham, The Christian...
Dates:
1600-1637 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library