 Florinus became inspired to collect proverbs in 1695 after getting the collections of Gabriel Tammelin in his possession who died that same year.At the encouragement of his friends, he published them and also his own collection of proverbs "Wanhain suomalaisten tawaliset ja suloiset sananlascut" in 1702.The corpus was geographically emphasised on proverbs found in Satakunta, Southwest Finland and Häme.