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Machine as note-taker Breathing machine 1927-1928 Harvard Medical School	“A notebook used in Brazil" William James's Diary and Sketchbook 1865 Brazil	An indignant reader The Trial of the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Anglesey 1744 London, England
A suffragist's reading notes Anacharsis's Travels to Greece 1837 Boston, MA	Notes without words Student drawings and color study 1905-1949 Harvard University	Price list on potsherd Second-century ostracon (ca.) 200-300 Elephantine, Egypt
Found in the garbage dump Papyrus listing clothes (ca.) 275-399 Oxyrhynchus, Egypt	Logbook for reel-to-reel recording Byzantine hymns and liturgies recorded in a monastery on Patmos 1960 Patmos, Greece	Thought and color Sketchbook of Henri-Edmond Cross 1897 Paris, France
Births, deaths and inoculations Waterhouse family Bible 1772 Oxford, England; Harvard Medical School	Changing the voice Pelléas et Mélisande, “Version pour tenor” 1907 Paris, France	Notes on notes George Lyman Kittredge's Commonplace Book 1878-1880 Harvard University
The first medical treatise printed in Hebrew Canon medicinae 1463 Naples, Italy	Thomas Gray reads Linnaeus Notes on Linné's Systema Naturae 1759-1762 Cambridge, England	How a sixteenth-century student took notes P. Vir. Maronis Georgica 1542-67 Paris, France
How to notate dance? Notations and scores for the Mariinskii Theatre production of "Giselle" 1903 St. Petersburg, Russia	Reading notes with date Year books (Edward IV : 1461-1470): De termino Michaelis anno primo Eduardi Quarti. 1572 London, England	From field notes to film Richard Frye documents his research in Baluchistan,1951-1952 1951-1952 Baluchistan, Iran
The terraqueous globe in respect to heat Lecture on the Motion and Phenomena of Heat as it respects the Earth 1782 Boston, MA	Sermons in shorthand Sermons of Edward Holyoke 1720-1732 Harvard University	A living note Mosses from an Old Manse 1846-1850 New York, NY; Salem, MA
A "Female Reading Society" Notes on Clarkson's "A Portraiture of Quakerism" 1812-1825 Charlestown, MA	File under "Murder" Loffice et aucthoritie de iustices de peace 1584 London, England	Putting a price on art Edward Forbes Auction Sales Catalog 1914 Berlin, Germany
A looseleaf notebook A student records a 19th-century anatomy lecture 1891 Harvard Medical School	Carlyle scribbles on his sources Voltaire in Frankfurt am Main, 1753 1846 Berlin, Germany	Healing chants Office for the anointing of the sick 1450 (ca.) Nuremberg, Germany
Doodles and depositions Class Notes of Frederic Dodge (1847-1927) 1868-1869 Harvard Law School	A reusable notebook Writing tables with a kalender for xxiiii yeres 1581 London, England	"Oral instruction in the arts of falconry" 鷹口傳 Taka kuden 1328-1709 Japan
The Education of Shunsuke Tsurumi Notes on Kierkegaard 1935-1942 Tokyo, Japan; Harvard University	Keeping tabs on Bach Johann Sebastian Bach’s Saemtliche Werke thematisch verzeichnet 1860 (ca.) Leipzig, Germany	Prompts for a new stagecraft Papers of Edward Gordon Craig 1893-1964 United Kingdom
Singular opinions Outline of the Sermon Preached by Ezra Ripley at the Sixtieth Anniversary of His Ordination 1838 Concord, MA	"Falconry illustrated" 鷹繪圖 Takaezu 1328-1709 Japan	Tinned or canned? Elizabeth David's "Italian Cooking" crosses the Atlantic 1956-1958 London, England; New York, NY
Precepts put into practice A common place book, upon the plan recommended and practised by John Locke, Esq 1822-1840 Harvard University	Taking notes on writer's palsy William James's class notes on lectures at Harvard Medical School 1866-1867 Harvard Medical School	Interleaving for notetaking Elementa Iuris Civilis Secundum Ordinem Institutionum 1751 Leiden, Netherlands
Insincere rot? Class notes on "French Painting" 1922-1923 Harvard University	Word and image Sargent's Sketch of Cellini's "Perseus" 1909-1910 (ca.) Florence, Italy	Marital collaboration Field notebooks of André and Yedda Godard 1932 Marāgha, Iran
Did Melville read it? A Natural History of Melville’s Reading? 1839 London, England	Composing in the 1980s Sketch for Piano Concerto with Selected Orchestra 1985 (ca.) New York, NY	Cave paintings in China Langdon Warner Photograph Album 1920s Wanfo Xia, China
The cost of a Harvard education Samuel Locke's Commonplace Book 1755-1778 Harvard University	Passing the censor Libro primero de las epistolas familiares del reuerendissimo señor don Antonio de Gueuara ... 1549 Valladolid, Spain	Jamaican flowers Diary of Alice Rich Northrop 1906 Jamaica
Using math to learn science Epitome of Mr. [Samuel] Williams's Experimental Lectures 1782 Harvard University	From one author to another Edward Everett Hale’s inscriptions to Harriet E. Freeman 1887-1906 Boston, MA; New York, NY	Self indexing John Hancock's Commonplace Book 1687 Boston, MA
Bad day again Henry James's Date Book 1914 London, England; Rye, England	Work and practice Guide for an Exhibition on Student Art 1905-1949 Harvard University	Using scrap paper Joseph Willard's notes for a Greek grammar 1781-1803 (ca.) Harvard University
Glosses in Greek Annotations to the History of the Peloponnesian War 1875-1889 Leipzig, Germany; Cambridge, MA	"The great work of indexing" Classified index to specific medical periodicals 1841 Boston, MA	Finding what you're looking for Rival commentators on Rollo May's "Man's Search for Himself" 1953 New York, NY
Doodling, copying, penmanship Expositio in artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis 1442 Oxford, England	The future of Harvard in 1700 Increase Mather's "Queries Worthy of Consideration" 1700 Harvard University	Guiding the reader Leviticus with the ordinary gloss 1150-1175 (ca.) Admont, Austria
Drawing as a language Lecture notes on color theory 1905-1949 Harvard University	A book designed to be written in Bilder aus der deutschen Kulturgeschichte [Scenes from German Cultural History] 1882-1887 Leipzig, Germany; Ithaca, NY	Hebrew notes in an Italian compendium Aesop's fables and other secular works in Italian 1380 (ca.) Italy
A page meant to be shared Antiphonary 1200 (ca.) Western Germany	The Education of Shunsuke Tsurumi Notes on Nakazawa 1938-1942 Tokyo, Japan; Harvard University	What is taught and what is learned Class notes on color theory 1905-1949 Harvard University
Collecting in the field Diary of A. E. Verrill 1860-1862 Harvard University	Multicolored margins Registrum brevium 1380 (ca.) Great Britain	At the first view of dissections Lectures upon anatomy 1783-1785 Harvard Medical School
Slavish imitation Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, annotated by Sir Georg Solti 1946 (ca.) London, England; New York, NY	The ultimate piece of office furniture The note closet (from London, 1640s to Germany, 1689) 1640s-1689 London, England; Hamburg, Germany	A solution to the cost of textbooks Copied textbook at Harvard, 1729 1729 Harvard University
A philosopher's day job Thoreau's Pencils 1821-1854 Concord, MA

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