941:, 1877: "The habit of journalizing becomes a life-long lesson in the art of composition, an informal schooling for authorship. And were the process of preparing their works for publication faithfully detailed by distinguished writers, it would appear how large were their indebtedness to their diary and commonplaces. How carefully should we peruse Shakespeare's notes used in compiling his plays—what was his, what another's—showing how these were fashioned into the shapely whole we read, how Milton composed, Montaigne, Goethe: by what happy strokes of thought, flashes of wit, apt figures, fit quotations snatched from vast fields of learning, their rich pages were wrought forth! This were to give the keys of great authorship!" Amos Bronson Alcott
1009:, mid-twentieth century: "et us take down one of those old notebooks which we have all, at one time or another, had a passion for beginning. Most of the pages are blank, it is true; but at the beginning we shall find a certain number very beautifully covered with a strikingly legible hand-writing. Here we have written down the names of great writers in their order of merit; here we have copied out fine passages from the classics; here are lists of books to be read; and here, most interesting of all, lists of books that have actually been read, as the reader testifies with some youthful vanity by a dash of red ink." Virginia Woolf, "Hours in a Library",
150:, "in which techniques for entering proverbs, quotations, ideas, speeches were formulated. Locke gave specific advice on how to arrange material by subject and category, using such key topics as love, politics, or religion. Following the publication of his work, publishers often printed empty commonplace books with space for headings and indices to be filled in by their users. An example is "Bell's Common-Place Book, Formed generally upon the Principles Recommended and Practised by Mr Locke" which was published by
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of small or medium format – never the large desk copies of registry books or other display texts. They also lacked the lining and extensive ornamentation of other deluxe copies. Rather than miniatures, a zibaldone often incorporates the author's sketches. Zibaldone were in cursive scripts (first
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536:: the "Three Crowns" of the Florentine vernacular traditions. 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.
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444:, a courtier of the tenth or eleventh-century Japan is likewise a private book of anecdote and poetry, daily thoughts and lists. However, none of these include the wider range of sources usually associated with commonplace books.
549:, 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.
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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
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By the eighth century, the idea of commonplaces was used, primarily in religious contexts, by preachers and theologians, to collect excerpted passages from the Bible or from approved
916:(1911–2004) kept a commonplace book with traditional commonplace headings and using index cards which "were kept in the plastic sleeves of a black photo album". They are held at the
910:, gen. ed. Don M. Wolfe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953). Milton kept scholarly notes from his reading, complete with page citations to use in writing his tracts and poems.
112:) which means "a general or common place", such as a statement of proverbial wisdom. In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as
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323:, a treatise on rhetoric education, and asked his readers to commit their commonplaces to memory. He also framed these commonplaces in moral and ethical overtones.
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Timber; or, Discoveries, made upon men and matter, as they have flow’d out of his daily
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Ludus literarius: or, The grammar schoole; shewing how to proceede from the first entrance into learning, to the highest perfection
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1975:. English Literary Renaissance. The University of Chicago Press. 43 (1 (Winter 2013)): 153–177.
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A Common-place Book of John Milton, and a Latin Essay and Latin Verses Presumed to be by Milton
1371:"Tools for Reordering: Commonplacing and the Space of Words in Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica"
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Reagan, Ronald (2011-05-10). Brinkley, Douglas (ed.).
1013:(New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1958), p. 25.
1783:"he Science and Rhetoric of Paley's Natural Theology"
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A Common Place Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies
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801:(D.L. Wilson, ed., Princeton University Press, 1989)
1814:"Adelaide Horatio Seymour Spencer commonplace book"
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338:as the founder of the genre with his commonplace
142:In 1685 the English Enlightenment philosopher
2187:The Commonplace Book of Robert Reynes of Acle
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945:(Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1877), p. 12.
760:, Longman, Greens and Company, London, 1883.
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2000:The Notebook: a history of thinking on paper
158:from 1776 to 1787, and it was later used by
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2109:Of education: especially of young gentlemen
1511:. Marquette University Press. p. 184.
857:The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton
1474:. Marquette University Press. p. 88.
1436:"(Book Review) Collected Works of Erasmus"
1414:The Medieval Review, University of Indiana
773:Robert Burns's Commonplace Book. 1783–1785
2088:A new method of making common-place-books
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148:A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books
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1757:"The Glass Box and the Commonplace Book"
758:The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies
248:The crowd loves and hates thoughtlessly.
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568:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
399:they were more commonly arranged under
1600:"Turning the Pages™ – British Library"
1578:(1st ed.). Doubleday. p. 3.
2051:One of the first handbooks in English
1111:List of personal information managers
653:in a commonplace which he called his
571:. The commonplace tradition in which
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1545:. Yale University Press. p. 33.
1171:Tag (metadata) § Knowledge tags
933:Literary references to commonplacing
730:http://www.rossashby.info/index.html
170:in 1855, including headings such as
1973:Recent Studies in Commonplace Books
1812:Spencer, Adelaide Horatio Seymour.
750:(New York: The Viking Press, 1970).
206:traveled with his notes in a sack.
2021:De duplici copia verborum ac rerum
1885:Sherman, William H. (1992-09-01).
1654:Petrucci, Armando (January 1995).
1279:. University of Pittsburgh Press.
958:The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
918:Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
908:John Milton: Complete Prose Works
868:Commonplaces of Christian Religion
860:(Cambridge University Press, 1919)
252:As a result of the development of
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2208:Commonplaces as figures of speech
1099:Comparison of notetaking software
943:, Table-Talk of A. Bronson Alcott
833:H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book
1755:Johnson, Steven (Aug 16, 2016).
993:, Count Almásy uses his copy of
665:Bibliothèque nationale de France
591:using them to write books. Both
317:further expanded these ideas in
2166:. Antwerp, 1532; composed 1484.
1629:Journal of the History of Ideas
1106:Personal information management
681:Oxford, Balliol College, MS 354
679:Richard Hill, a London grocer (
226:) advocated a hierarchical but
1240:Basbanes, Nicholas A. (2006).
977:A Series of Unfortunate Events
671:Loci communes (Pseudo-Maximus)
478:, written by the Italian poet
459:used the commonplace book as "
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1408:Contreni, John (1999-08-13).
1140:Reference management software
1123:Personal knowledge management
258:various software applications
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220:Method of Collecting Examples
27:Method of knowledge compiling
1502:Erasmus, Desiderius (1999).
1465:Erasmus, Desiderius (1999).
1352:Jameson, Mrs (Anna) (1855).
1207:English Literary Renaissance
539:The best-known zibaldone is
499:Zibaldone were always paper
2185:Cameron Louis, ed. (1980).
1983:. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
1375:Intellectual History Review
920:. Edited by his biographer
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2213:Extraordinary Commonplaces
1936:Page, Susan (2011-05-08).
1818:franklin.library.upenn.edu
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2134:De locis communibus ratio
1695:. Yale University Press.
1387:10.1080/17496971003783773
1333:Cambridge Digital Library
1246:. Perennial. p. 82.
1034:, a similar Chinese genre
1032:Biji (Chinese literature)
904:Milton's Commonplace Book
798:Literary Commonplace Book
461:an arsenal of 'factoids'.
345:In the first century AD,
238:, under Piety might come
2217:New York Review of Books
2144:Institutiones rhetoricae
1152:(aka sylvae ("forests"))
224:Ratio collegendi exampla
2194:by Prof. Lucia Knoles,
1787:Literature and Theology
1574:Moller, Violet (2019).
1219:10.1111/1475-6757.12005
1118:Personal knowledge base
928:(Harper Collins, 2011).
608:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
374:De topicis differentiis
45:) are a way to compile
1998:Allen, Roland (2023).
1991:Havens, Earle (2001).
1559:Havens, Earle (2001).
1539:Blair, Ann M. (2010).
1434:Perry, Alan T (1992).
1275:Miller, Susan (1998).
1068:Knowledge organization
1003:as a commonplace book.
807:Legal Commonplace Book
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367:In the sixth century
269:Philosophical origins
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1781:Eddy, M. D. (2004).
1576:The Map of Knowledge
1369:Eddy, M. D. (2010).
708:Mrs. Anna Anderson,
449:renaissance scholars
409:which translates as
2247:Books of quotations
2232:Medieval literature
2154:Rhetorices elementa
2061:Elementa rhetoricae
1971:Burke, Victoria E.
1689:Kent, Dale (2006).
1623:Blair, Ann (1992).
1307:. Riverhead Books.
1178:("treasure chests")
990:The English Patient
939:Amos Bronson Alcott
597:Henry David Thoreau
593:Ralph Waldo Emerson
320:Institutio Oratoria
133:Early Modern Europe
92:"Commonplace" is a
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2164:De formando studio
2160:Rodolphus Agricola
2150:Philip Melanchthon
2140:Philip Melanchthon
2130:Philip Melanchthon
2057:Joachim Camerarius
2032:Desiderius Erasmus
2016:Desiderius Erasmus
1995:. Yale University.
1842:cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
1734:Zibaldone da Canal
1732:An example is the
1563:. Yale University.
950:Arthur Conan Doyle
884:Philip Melanchthon
829:"Commonplace Book"
804:Thomas Jefferson,
795:Thomas Jefferson,
735:2009-02-08 at the
703:Published examples
696:Zibaldone da Canal
601:Harvard University
534:Giovanni Boccaccio
530:Francesco Petrarca
506:chancery minuscule
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347:Seneca the Younger
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2120:Petrus Mosellanus
1915:. HarperCollins.
1585:978-0-385-54176-3
1314:978-1-101-44420-7
1253:978-0-06-059324-7
790:The Houghton Club
585:the Enlightenment
494:Giovanni Rucellai
453:Leonardo da Vinci
430:, whose own work
401:thematic headings
332:Diogenes Laertius
172:Ethical Fragments
39:Commonplace books
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2113:Internet Archive
2095:. London, 1706.
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