Aphorisms.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Short, pithy statements of principle or precepts, often of known authorship; distinguished from "proverbs" which are statements repeated colloquially and which often embody the folk wisdom of a group or nation.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts, undated, of epigrams, riddles, aphorisms, and 'Vocable verses' by William Soutar., [1917-1942.]
File
Identifier: MS.8616
Dates:
[1917-1942.]
Notebook entitled 'A Missellany or Collection of severall things, 1625', containing transcripts, presumably derived from printed editions or, since many were printed after 1625, from manuscript copies., 1625.
File
Identifier: MS.5831
Scope and Contents
The works transcribed are as follows.(i) Anne Boleyn's last letter to Henry VIII. See the 'Harleian Miscellany', volume iii, page 61. (Folio 6.)(ii) The 1st Earl of Salisbury's ‘The state and dignity of a secretary of state's place’. See the 'Harleian Miscellany', volume ii, page 265. (Folio 10.)(iii) Francis Bacon's 'An advertisement, touching the controversies of the Church of England'. See William Rawley, ‘Resuscitatio, or bringing into publick light...
Dates:
1625.
Notebook of William Soutar entitled 'Aphorisms'., 1920.
Item
Identifier: MS.8652
Notebook of William Soutar entitled 'Aphorisms'., 1920, or after.
Item
Identifier: MS.8653
Notebooks of William Soutar entitled 'Aphorisms'., 1920.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8652-8653
Scope and Contents
The first volume was begun in November 1920. No other dates are recorded.
Dates:
1920.
Translations into Latin verse of Hippocrates, ‘Aphorisms’ by James Macartney.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.4
Scope and Contents
‘Hippocratis aphorismi Latinis versibus redditi per Jacobun Macartreum medicum Edinburgensem.’.
Dates:
1690.