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Title: [Commonplace book].
Creator: Renaud, Daniel, 1692-1772.
Contributor: Bennett, F., former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1751-1763]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. In English, with some notes in Greek.
Scope/Content: Commonplace book of Daniel Renaud, rector of Whitchurch, Herefordshire, containing rebuses, riddles, conundrums, acrostics and geometric diagrams. Dates are written next to some entries but not all, so the date range of 1751-1763 is not necessarily all-inclusive. Some notes on arithmetic are written at the end of the volume in a different, later hand.
Condition: Bound in worn calf with cracked spine.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Notebooks
Extent: 20, [120] p., bound ;30 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1tw38
MS.1977.007
Language: English
eng
Greek
grc
Subject: Acrostics--England--Early works to 1800.
Arithmetic--Early works to 1800.
Literary recreations--England--Early works to 1800.
Rebuses--England--Early works to 1800.
Riddles--Early works to 1800.
Place: England--Herefordshire--Whitchurch
Provenance: On p. [52]: "Memorandum: This m.s. was written by Rev. D. Renaud, my great-great grandfather, Rector of Whitchurch, Herefordshire, who came from Neufch{circ}atel, Switzerland. [signed] F. Bennett." Similar note on p. [78].
Location: CLUW

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