Ms common-place book containing 37 contributions including poems, hymns, drawings and prose items, c. 1831-1835

A specifically prepared luxury volume as issued by Delarue, Cornish and Rock. Items include: 'Epitaph on professor Young of Glasgow'; 'The Traveller', a poem; 'List of Ministers names who are or have been in the Kirk of Scotland'; 'Translation of one of the Odes in the Media'; 'Hymns Constitutional de Portugal composta por Sua Altera Real Dom Pedro Quarto' with music; 'An essay upon an Apple', a poem; 'The Poets Bride', a poem, and 'Thine Album'.

Commonplace books were a way of compiling knowledge, usually by writing information into books or notebooks... in effect, scrapbooks... filled with items such as medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables, proverbs, prayers, legal and mathematical formulas. They were used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts. Every commonplace book was unique to the particular interests of the creator.

In this instance the collection contains poems, hymns (some with music), a few drawings, and an occasional prose item.

Open to bona fide researchers, but please contact repository for details in advance of visit.

Acquired 28 October 2015. Accession no: E2015.81.

None created for this collection.

Catalogued by Graeme D. Eddie 9 November 2015