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A scholarly edition of a seventeenth-century anonymous commonplace book in the British Library [introduction]

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posted on 2015-02-05, 14:01 authored by Catherine ArmstrongCatherine Armstrong
The study of commonplace books offers an important means for scholars to gather evidence on the history of reading practices in early modern England. A cross between a diary and a notebook, a commonplace book is usually a collection of handwritten notes in which a reader recorded items of particular interest from printed books, manuscripts or from conversations or sermons. A remarkable work that brings to life the reader-reception practices of early modern England, this work provides the original voices of both the author of the published work and of the commonplace author while it remains pure to the idiomatic nuances of the time. A rare glimpse into the history of the book through the eyes of the reader’s notes.

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  • Social Sciences

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  • Politics and International Studies

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ARMSTRONG, C.M., 2014. A scholarly edition of a seventeenth-century anonymous commonplace book in the British Library. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 196 pp.

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© The Edwin Mellen Press

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  • SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

This is the introduction to the book, A scholarly edition of a seventeenth-century anonymous commonplace book in the British Library, published by the Edwin Mellen Press [https://mellenpress.com/]. The original manuscript of this commonplace book is held at the British Library, part of number 6494 in Harleian Manuscript collections.

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0773400842;9780773400849

Language

  • en

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