Renaissance commonplace books from the Sloane Collection at the British Library
Publisher: Adam Matthew
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Marlborough, Wiltshire [England]
Language: eng
Format: [microform]
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Commonplace-books; European literature
Notes: Over 90 volumes of commonplace books and carefully compiled miscellanies which reveal much about the reading practices and popular culture in Britain from 1570-1750. Includes material on alchemy, antiquities, books, fables, fashion, gardening, history, law, literature, logic, mathematics, medicine, natural history, physics, politics, proverbs, receipts, religion, trade and the art of writing. The earliest volume is the commonplace book of a Christ Church scholar, 1570-1590, and there are works compiled by Nathaniel Highmore, Daniel Foote, James Stanley, Henry Power, Thomas Browne, James Petivar and Abraham Hill. There are also some miscellanies compiled in manuscript by John Bagford on the art of printing, the art of writing and on London.