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- Dictionarycommonplace book/ˈkɒmənpleɪs ˌbʊk/
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- 1. a book into which notable extracts from other works are copied for personal use.
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Commonplace books are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century. Such books are similar to scrapbooks filled with items of many kinds: notes, proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, prayers, legal formu... Wikipedia