Miscellany
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A miscellany is a collection of various pieces of writing by different authors. Meaning a mixture, medley, or assortment, a miscellany can include pieces on many subjects and in a variety of different
Miniature of Noah's Ark landing on the Mountains of Ararat (fol. 521a), from the 13th century North French Hebrew Miscellany
A patterned page from the Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608
"My hope is yow for to obtaine". A love poem in a distinctive hand from The Devonshire Manuscript, 57r.
A drawing illustrating the medieval poem "Reinbroun" from the Auchinleck Manuscript.
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,
Miscellany
…opportunistic endeavours. Multi-authored collections are known to exist in many forms – such as newspapers, magazines, or journals – and the act of commonplacing, of transcribing useful extracts and quotations from multiple sources is also well recorded. However, the formal production of literary miscellanies…
A commonplace book from the mid-seventeenth century
Zibaldone di pensieri, written by the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi