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commonplace book
n.
A personal journal in which quotable passages, literary excerpts, and comments are written.

commonplace book
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(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a notebook in which quotations, poems, remarks, etc., that catch the owner's attention are entered
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Noun1.commonplace book - a notebook in which you enter memorabilia
notebook - a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda


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For her discussion of the material traces left by readers, Brayman Hackel examined in detail some 150 surviving copies of Sidney's Arcadia, about fifty copies of quarto editions of prose fictions by Greene (only six were copies of Greene's Arcadia), and four intact commonplace books featuring extracts from the Arcadias.
The fourth is The Selection of Juries and the fifth is made up of entries in Locke's Commonplace Books.
John Locke and Virginia Woolf used commonplace books, or notebooks, to record noteworthy quotations or ideas culled from books.
 
 
 
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