Dear All,
Many thanks for everyone who replied to my query concerning commonplace
books. In all of the responses that I received (both off the list and
on it), I noticed that the notion of an early modern commonplace books,
both in form and in content, overlapped with other manuscript genres
like diaries, journals and more pragmatically orientated items like
account books and hand-copied manuals. Are there any
eighteeteenth-century sources that attempt to differentiate or compare
these types of manuscript texts? I know that there were books published
on the nature of book production at this time - but what about
manuscript production?
Best Wishes,
Matthew.
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