Primary Sources: Medieval and Renaissance Periods: Common-Place Books

"Commonplace book with sermons, geneaologies, booklists, newspaper articles, pamphlets, drawings, and original prose and poetry. Contains commentary and information about Elizabethan religious controversies. "

Containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms, and local accounts / printed from the original manuscript at Brome Hall, Suffolk
Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith

"Written in Germany in several unidentified hands in littera bastarda with headings and colored initials in red.
The poems are dated by Eckehard Simon to 1444-1476.
Recipes in German and Latin written in a later hand and dated 1534. Also contains proverbs, maxims and medical recipes. "

Richard Hill's Commonplace-Book
Edited by Roman Dyboski, PH. D.