In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as John Milton's example. "Commonplace book" is at times used with an...

Look up commonplace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Commonplace may refer to: Commonplace book Literary topos, the concept in rhetoric based on "commonplaces"...

Pessoa's astute melancholy. What is this Livro do Desassossego? Neither 'commonplace book', nor 'sketchbook', nor 'florilegium' will do. Imagine a fusion of...

Richard Hill's Commonplace Book, or Oxford, Balliol College MS 354, is a manuscript collection of late-medieval English poems and other miscellaneous items...

Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783–1785 is the first of three commonplace books that were produced by the poet. The contents cover drafts of songs and...

also used in the tradition of the commonplace book and note-taking. A well known example is Isaac Newton's Waste Book in which he did much of the development...

A zibaldone (plural zibaldoni) is an Italian vernacular commonplace book or notebook containing a wide variety of vernacular texts, copied into a small...

(January 16, 2014). "やおい穴イベント（後編）" [Yaoi Hole Event (Part 2)]. 備忘録（白峰彩子） [Commonplace Book: Ayako Shiramine] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on December...

The Book of Magical Charms, is a handwritten occult commonplace book composed in England in the seventeenth century and currently in the holdings of the...

used this for a brief synopsis of a new story outlined in his own Commonplace Book at first in August 1925, which developed organically out of the idea...