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Brewer's: Hand-book
Spelman says that King Alfred used to carry in his bosom memorandum leaves, in which he made observations, and took so much pleasure therein that he called it his hand-book, because it was always in his hand.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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