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commonplace books

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Commonplace book, Undated

 Item — Volume 1
Scope and Content note

This collection is composed of the single volume commonplace book of Abraham Pennell and includes extracts from Elias Hicks letters and sermons, extracts of early Friends writings, bible verses, and testimonies from various Quaker individuals, including: John Grafton, Samuel Fuller, Benjamin Holme, and sermons from various Meetings for worship.

Dates: Undated

Humanistic commonplace book, 1425 - 1450

 Item
Identifier: Gordan MS 33
Overview Table of contents: Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria, with prefatory letter to Lorenzo di Giovanni de' Medici; Unidentified poem followed by several quotations on the subjects of women and marriage; Guarino Veronese, Regulae Grammaticales; Unidentified text; Part of an unidentified text (a Poggio letter?) which begins incompletely and a letter from Poggio Bracciolini to Mariano Sozzini which ends incompletely; Poggio, Invectiva contra Perrotum, ends incompletely; Leonardo Bruni, letter to...
Dates: 1425 - 1450

Noctes atticae (abridged), 1450 - 1499

 Item
Identifier: Gordan MS 107
Overview Auli gelii noctium atticarum primi comentarii extracta quodam sequuntur Curus initium est. Primo de Ingenio~pithagore sollertia exempla ponitInc: Plutarchus in libro quem scripit: Quantii inter homines fuit animi corporisque ingenio atque virtutibus inter sit. conscripsit scite subtiliterque ratiocinatum.Expl.: Tum contio universa que ad sentenciam de scipione ferenda conuenerat relicto Tribuno Scipionem in capitolio comitata atque inde ad edes eius cum letitia et...
Dates: 1450 - 1499