[Commonplace book], 1700.

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[Commonplace book], 1700.

[Commonplace book], 1700.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702176503

Manuscript notebook in a single hand containing two works. The first 101 pages contain extracts in Latin from a text on logic, headed "Logica institutio compendiosa maximam partem, ex Heereboordi erm eneia logica desumpta." These are presumably from Adrianus Heereboord's Hermineia Logica. The second section of the volume contains "Dr. Merryweathers directions to a young student in the university." This text outlines a four year course of study at the university, gives detailed advice on how to read, take notes, and construct commonplace books, as well as general advice on studious conduct, religious practices, and gentlemanly behavior. There is also a list of works noted as being read by "such young gentlemen as come to university rather for breeding than for scholarship:" these include Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Sandys' Travels, Herbert's and Crashaw's poems, More's Utopia, Camden's Remains, and Bacon's Natural History.

1 v. (162 p.) ; 15 x 9 cm.

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