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Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are personal notebooks used to compile any information the owner finds interesting or useful. They can variously contain notes, proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, prayers, legal formulas, and other professional references. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century.

Commonplace book - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Method of knowledge compiling "Commonplace books" redirects here. For the podcast publisher, see Night Vale Presents . A commonplace book from the mid-seventeenth century Commonplace books (or commonplaces ) are personal notebooks used to compile any information the owner finds interesting or useful. They can variously contain notes, proverbs , adages , aphorisms , maxims , recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, prayers, legal formulas, and other professional references. They have been

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