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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.]

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Identifier: MS.8616
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

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.

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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, or after.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8653
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The first volume was begun in November 1920. No other dates are recorded.

Dates: 1920, or after.

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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.4
Scope and Contents

‘Hippocratis aphorismi Latinis versibus redditi per Jacobun Macartreum medicum Edinburgensem.’.

Dates: 1690.