COMMONPLACE BOOK KEEPERS

Co mmonpla˙ ce-book. A book in which 'commonplaces' or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
1578 Cooper Thesaurus Introd., A studious young man .. may gather to himselfe good furniture both of words and approved phrases .. and to make to his use as it were a common place booke.

The Oxford English Dictionary

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