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    The Rise of Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe
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    1. chrisaldrich 27 Mar 2023
      By looking at practices of note-taking for their ownsake we can get a better idea of how people performed intellectual work in the past, what caughttheir attention and how they moved from reading to producing a finished work, often via note-taking.
      quote Ann M. Blair intellectual history note taking why personal knowledge management
    2. chrisaldrich 27 Mar 2023
      In literature genetic criticism studies the development of a work from reading notesand drafts; this approach is most feasible after the mid-19th century, once national librariesstarted amassing the working papers of authors, either by bequest or by purchase.5

      National libraries began to more commonly acquire the working papers (nachlass) of authors and researchers after the mid-19th century.

      genetic criticism XIX national libraries nachlass personal papers
    3. chrisaldrich 27 Mar 2023

      Blair, Ann M. “The Rise of Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe.” Intellectual History Review 20, no. 3 (August 4, 2010): 303–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2010.492611.

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      references Ann M. Blair note taking intellectual history Oxford English Dictionary historical linguistics
    4. chrisaldrich 27 Mar 2023
      Oxford English Dictionary first attests 'commonplace' (from the Latin 'locus communis') asnoun in 1531 and a verb in 1656; 'excerpt' (from the Latin 'excerpere') as a verb in 1536 and anoun in 1656.

      The split between the ideas of commonplace book and zettelkasten may stem from the time period of the Anglicization of the first. If Gessner was just forming the tenets of a zettelkasten practice in 1548 and the name following(?) [what was the first use of zettelkasten?] while the word commonplace was entering English in 1531 using a book format, then the two traditions would likely have been splitting from that point forward in their different areas.

      definitions commonplace books 1531 1656 1536 ars excerpendi commonplace books vs. zettelkasten open questions

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