A Miscellany is a kind of notebook, maintained by all kinds of people in times past. Some of them were also known as Commonplace Books. Strictly speaking, though, the Miscellany is a collection of quotes from different sources, which speak to the collector in some manner. Mine is an actual notebook; the transcription here is a project during the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020.
9th April 2020: "In 1590 [...] the Florentine Agostino Lapini..."
8th April 2020: "[A] single consignment from one ship..."
7th April 2020: "Where the city got..."
6th April 2020: "Eighteenth-century cookbooks were filled..."
5th April 2020: "As the nation urbanized..."
4th April 2020: "The single major change..."
3rd April 2020: "Far too much political narrative..."
2nd April 2020: "Ireland often perplexes..."
1st April 2020: "Sometimes it rests in a sunbeam..."
31st March 2020: "In times of crises..."
30th March 2020: "Societies that develop..."
29th March 2020: "They require wide ranges..."
28th March 2020: The combination of the appearance..."
27th March 2020: "To this day, no alternative disaster..."
26th March 2020: "For communities to exist..."
25th March 2020 (2/2): "The poor and disabled are always..."
25th March 2020 (1/2): "A director only makes..."
24th March 2020: "... the practice of maintaining miscellanies..."
23rd March 2020: "New items were entered in a miscellany..."
22nd March 2020: "The printing press was now a century old..."
21st March 2020: "The circulation of poems in manuscript form..."
20th March 2020: "The interactions among the book's users..."
19th March 2020: "In the aftermath of the English Civil War..."