Proverbs.
Subject
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Scope Note: Refers to short, concise sayings repeated colloquially expressing a general truth or observation about human life or behavior, often embodying the folk wisdom of a group or nation. Distinguished from ""aphorisms"" which are statements of principle or precepts, often of known authorship.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Bible, probably written in Italy in the 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.19
Scope and Contents
The order of contents is the usual one (see ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, ii, pages 210-212), except that the Prayer of Solomon is included at the end of Ecclesiasticus (folio 193). The prologues are as listed in ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, with the following exceptions: 2 Chronicles, no prologue; Job, Stegmüller 349; Psalms, Stegmüller numbers 430, 10470, and 1833, 1; Proverbs has two additional prologues, Stegmüller 456 and 455; Jeremiah has two additional...
Dates:
Mid 13th century.
Commonplace Book compiled by Reverend John Fairley.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14554
Scope and Contents
Contains extensive notes on "Popery" in Scotland, the Scottish Covenanters and Cameronians, temperance and abstinence, proverbs and quotations, and observations on the rules of composition.
Dates:
Circa 1837.
Commonplace book of Fife provenance, containing household and medical recipes, verse, and proverbs.
Item
Identifier: MS.24779
Dates:
1840-1854.
‘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.]
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a ‘coat of arms’ watermark. The scribe of the manuscript is William MacMurchy (see Adv.MS.72.2.12). MacMurchy also wrote versions of fourteen of the poems in this manuscript in what are now Adv.MS.73.2.2 (thence printed in ‘Reliquiae Celticae’, volume 2, pages 310-420) and the Inverneill MS (photostat, National Library of Scotland MS.14981). A number of the poems are plainly by the scribe himself.Ewen MacLachlan described it in his ‘Celtic Analysis’...
Dates:
18th century, before 1778.
Manuscript of chiefly Gaelic proverbs written by William MacMurchy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript bears a ‘coat of arms’ watermark, and was written circa 1759 (cf. page 11) by William MacMurchy (died circa 1778) of Campbeltown in Kintyre, schoolmaster, tailor, poet, musician and scribe, for whom see Conley, 'A poem in the Stewart Collection', page 26. He may have been a pupil of Hugh MacLean (schoolmaster of Kilchenzie, Kintyre, circa 1699), as his Gaelic hand, typical of its period for Irish manuscripts, bears at times a strong resemblance to that of the latter (note...
Dates:
[Circa 1759.]
Microfilm of two Gaelic manuscripts of William MacMurchy (died circa 1778) of Campbelltown in Kintyre.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.979
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: A collection of proverbs and other matter, written circa 1759 by William MacMurchy (Adv.MS.72.2.12); A collection of poetry written by William MacMurchy, many of his own composition (Adv.MS.73.2.2).
Dates:
[?circa 1759.]
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
[?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.
Papers of the Rymour Club, Edinburgh, which existed from 1903 to 1947, its object being the collection of Scottish ballads, popular rhymes, proverbs, and the like.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3760-3770
Dates:
1903-1947.