Commentaries.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Treatises or series of comments that systematically explain or annotate another work.
Found in 123 Collections and/or Records:
Part of a commentary on Aristotle`s "Categoriae".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11363- is now MS.25239
Dates:
15th century.
Part of a commentary or lectures (pages 33-48) on the ‘Epistle to Philemon’ by the Reverend William Auld, Minister of Mauchline, the ‘Daddy Auld’ of Robert Burns., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.161
Dates:
18th century.
Photocopies of papers from the Thomas Tait Collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9835
Scope and Contents
With additional commentary and extracts compiled by William Tait, son of Thomas and co-creator of the collection.
Dates:
20th century.
Pocketbook 12 of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing chiefly an essay on the development of art, science and intellect in man., [1758, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.24557
Scope and Contents
The essay on the development of art, science and intellect in man begins on page 1, a paper concerning the philosophy of Pythagoras and Plato begins on page 75; and notes from M Veyssière de la Croze, ‘Histoire du Christianisme des Indes’, on page 85, and from Simplicius' commentary on Artistotle, on page 91.
Dates:
[1758, or after.]
‘Relics of Correspondence with Sir Walter Scott, Explanatory Notes, and other Reminiscences, by J. Skene, Edinburgh, 1833’.
File
Identifier: MS.965
Scope and Contents
The volume contains:
(i) 92 letters of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly to James Skene, from 1805 to 1832, bound in with Skene's commentary and followed by reminiscences of Mrs Skene (folios 1-281). Most of the material was published as ‘Memories of Sir Walter Scott’ (London, 1909), and it was used by David Douglas in his ‘Familiar letters of Sir Walter Scott’ (Edinburgh, 1894).
(ii) James Skene's correspondence regarding proposals for a memorial to Scott, which includes letters from various...
Dates:
1805-1835.
"Remarks on reading Pliny's history" and a draft introduction to MS.13917: Translations of a number of 'Indian letters'., [Circa 1805.]
File
Identifier: MS.13938
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
[Circa 1805.]
`Riettarbætur Noregs Kónga.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:
1. A copy of the `Bualög` (Leges Oeconomicorum);
2. Commentary on some obscure passages of that code;
3. Glossary of old words found in the Law Code of Iceland.
Dates:
18th century.
Sermons and religious commentaries, possibly originating in Argyllshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11915
Dates:
circa 1670.
Seventeenth-century manuscript of Stair's ‘Institutions’, being most of Book I and the whole of Books II-III, ending at 'Vitious Intromission'., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3172
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is followed by a commentary in different hands of the same period (folio 182).
Dates:
17th century.
Theological works of Saints Jerome, Augustine, and others, written in the 12th century., 12th century.
File
Identifier: MS.6121
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Commentary on St Mark's Gospel by the pseudo-Jerome (folio 1). See ‘Repertorium Biblicum medii aevi’, number 3436. The commentary is printed in, J P Migne, ‘Patrologiae Cursus Completus ... Latina’, volume xxx, 589-644.(ii) 'Continuatio veteris et novi testamenti', a rhymed version of pseudo-Hegesippus, 'De bello iudaico' (folio 18); beginning 'Contion of pseudo-Hegesippus, 'De bello iudaico' (folio 18); beginning 'Continuare volumus...
Dates:
12th century.
Two commonplace books of George Glen Napier.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9098
Scope and Contents
Containing quotations from Tennyson`s "In Memorium", press cuttings and commentaries.
Dates:
circa 1905-circa 1928.
Two contiguous vellum fragments, together forming the upper part of a bifolium of an unidentified commentary on the Book of Proverbs., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.23
Scope and Contents
The text is written in a small, heavily contracted hand. Probably about half of the bifolium survives, the width of each leaf being about 7½ inches, and the combined height (the fragments having been cut horizontally) being about 5 inches. The surviving portions of the commentary refer to Proverbs ii, 5-17, iii, 1-5, iv, 1-7, and iv, 10-11.The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark L.87.b) of ‘Sermons de M. Jean Calvin sur le Livre de Iob’ (Geneve, 1611),...
Dates:
14th century.
Two separate and apparently independent fragments of manuscript in Gaelic bearing different portions of the same text, the commentary on the Aphorisms of Damascenus.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Folio 1: (John Mackenchie’s ‘B’).The text is written by an undistinguished and rather variable hand, small to average in size.On Isidore’s commentary on Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 1 recto, column a, line 1. Beginning ‘(I)lla non debet nos commovere [et] [c]eter[a]’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 2 recto, column b, line 35. Ends incomplete ‘mar at[a] reubarbarum ar meid as cosm[ail]’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13,...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Typed editorial comments, with author`s notes added, by R L C Lorimer.
File
Identifier: Acc.5767
Scope and Contents
Concerning Thomas Crawford, "Burns: A Study of the Poems and Songs" (1960).
Dates:
circa 1960.
Typescript copy of a detailed examination of ‘The Report ... of the Board ... on their examination into the conduct ... of Lieut.-General Sir John Cope’ by John Murray of Broughton, sometime Secretary to Prince Charles Edward., [1749, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.286
Scope and Contents
The volume is lettered 'Vol. III'.
Dates:
[1749, or after.]
Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.
File
Identifier: Acc.7316
Scope and Contents
Kept during a visit to Edinburgh and the Borders.
With notes and comments by the transcriber John S B Pratt Junior, undated
photocopy of a charcoal sketch, circa 1838, of Dr Boyd
biographical note, 1882.
Dates:
1831-1882.
Typescript copy of Thomas Mathison's ‘The Goff. An Herio-comical Poem in three Cantos’, with a commentary, 1946, by C B Clapcott, showing that the poem describes an actual golf match played on Leith Links in 1743.
Item
Identifier: MS.3999
Dates:
1743, 1946.
Typescript drafts, with manuscript corrections, of an audio-visual commentary for visitors to the Wallace Monument at Stirling by Sydney Goodsir Smith., ?1961.
File
Identifier: MS.26148
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.
Dates:
?1961.
Typescript of David Hamilton`s commentary on Thomas Mathison`s "The Goff. An Herio-Comical Poem in Three Cantos" (Edinburgh, 1743).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10937
Dates:
1994.
Typescripts and other material for “Joan Miró”: a fragmentary and personal memoir' by Ruthven Todd., 1947, 1971-1973, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26854-26855
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Much of Ruthven Todd's prose writing, especially in his later life, was repetitious: he not only made numerous drafts and re-writings, but he used the same material in both books and articles. In particular, he made use of his own reminiscences in his work on Dylan Thomas and Fitzrovia as well as in the more autobiographical 'Dead and other friends and places'. MSS.26834-26856 contain material intended for full-length books; MSS.26857-26863 consist of shorter works and...
Dates:
1947, 1971-1973, undated.
Typescripts and other material for “Joan Miró”: a fragmentary and personal memoir' by Ruthven Todd., 1947, 1971-1973, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26854
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript, heavily corrected in manuscript, 1971 (folio 1); (ii) Photocopies with manuscript corrections, of a later typescript incorporating the corrections in (i) (folio 37); (iii) Notes, photographs, and other material, 1971-1973, undated (folio 110). They include a photocopy of part of a commentary accompanying the film 'Joan Miro makes a color print', 1947.
Dates:
1947, 1971-1973, undated.
Vellum fragment, being an almost complete leaf from what appears to be a commentary on a legal text; with 13 very small parchment fragments., ?14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.16
Scope and Contents
From ?16th century to 1970 this was the outer cover of Adv.MS.72.1.27.The text, written in Latin in two columns in a current book-hand tending towards rotunda, appears to be a commentary on a legal treatise. The quoted words and phrases are underlined in red, and spaces have been left (unfilled) for coloured initials. Ownership and other notes in Gaelic are written in a later hand in some of the margins. The following notes were added in some of the spaces on the recto, clearly...
Dates:
?14th century.