[English commonplace book : ca. 1700-1725].
"A manuscript almost entirely written in English with infrequent use of quotations in Latin...The latest datable source which appears close to the end of the manuscript is from 1724, but a cluster of sources from the end of the first decade of the century strongly suggest that the work was star...
| Format: | Manuscript |
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | "A manuscript almost entirely written in English with infrequent use of quotations in Latin...The latest datable source which appears close to the end of the manuscript is from 1724, but a cluster of sources from the end of the first decade of the century strongly suggest that the work was started by someone already in middle age around 1708 and continued for nearly two decades. Following long established conventions, this collection of commonplaces combines the role of reading diary and notebook, resulting in individual entries of between half a page and a couple of pages...English history and conduct in public life are the commonplace writer's overwhelming interests."--Condensed from bookseller's description. |
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| Item Description: | Title from bookseller's description. Quarto: 200 ff.; 88 pages of text with a further dozen manuscript leaves in the same hand laid in. Around 25-30,000 words. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy contains the booksellers description. |
| Physical Description: | 200 leaves ; 21 cm (quarto) |