Commonplace book
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Commonplace books 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,
A commonplace book from the mid-seventeenth century
Zibaldone di pensieri, written by the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi
Waste book
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A waste book was one of the traditional books used in bookkeeping, consisting of a diary of all transactions in chronological order. It differs from a daybook in that only a single waste book is maint
Commonplace book
…the University of Cambridge, with a digitised version freely available to view online. He developed the calculus in a commonplace which he called his waste book. Jean Miélot, fifteenth-century Burgundian translator and author. His book is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the main sources for his…
Sketch from Kurt Tucholsky's waste book