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commonplace book - wikipedia commonplace book from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia jump to navigation jump to search method of knowledge compiling a commonplace book from the mid- th century commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge , usually by writing information into books
. they have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the renaissance and in the nineteenth century. such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. commonplaces...
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