Commentaries.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Treatises or series of comments that systematically explain or annotate another work.
Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:
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 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.
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 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.
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.