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Maxims.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Rules or principles of conduct, morality or prudence, expressed in sententious form. It is often used specifically for precepts of morality or prudence occurring in Old English verse, or for self-evident propositions assumed as a premiss in mathematical or dialectical reasoning. The meaning of this term may overlap somewhat with "aphorisms."

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Compendium of medical treatises in Gaelic written by Angus Beaton.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.10
Scope and Contents The compendium of medical treatises was written 1611-1614 by Angus Beaton. He gives only his patronymic, Aonghus mac Fearchair mhic Aonghuis (pages 126, 192, 260), but this is sufficient to identify him as of the Beatons of Husabost in Skye. Apart from one visit to Skye (Trumpan, page 66), and a meeting or consultation with Cameron of Lochiel at a place called Dunán Eachain (page 106), Angus’ line-fillers and other notes indicate that the manuscript was written on circuit in the contiguous...
Dates: 1611-1614.

‘Gaelic Proverbs, Adages, Maxims & Common Sayings, with an English translation & explanatory notes. To which is added, A Specimen of a Gaelic Calendar', by James McIntyre, schoolmaster in Glasgow.

 File
Identifier: MS.1832
Scope and Contents

The author died in January 1835, when the work was about to be published. At the end are printed proofs of part of the preface and selections in manuscript from the proverbs given before. At the beginning is a note on McIntyre's life and work.

Dates: [1835, or before.]

Microfilm of ‘Parte of the life of Lady Margaret Cunning…’ ; and, a book of French maxims.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1176
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Book of French maxims, 1629 (MS.5786);

‘Parte of the life of Lady Margaret Cunningham, Daughter to the Earle of Glencairn yt she had wt her first husband the master of Evandale. The just and true account yrof as it was first written wt her oun hand’, 1608, with letters and her will, 1607, 1622 (MS.906).

Dates: 1608-1629.

Specimens of copperplate handwriting written out for his parents by William Prichard.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8929
Scope and Contents

A group of samples of handwriting was submitted half-yearly, at Christmas and mid-summer, when the boy was at Watford Academy, and subsequently (1828 onwards) at Prospect House Academy, Bushey. The texts consist of religious and educational maxims, and poems.

Dates: 1826-1831, 1833.