Commentaries.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Treatises or series of comments that systematically explain or annotate another work.
Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:
Pañcadaśī of Vidyāraṇya, an exposition of Vedantic philosophy, with Brahmānanda commentary by Rāmakṛṣṇa on the first three of four books.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.14
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in Devanāgarī script.Side margins ruled in red, daṇḍas mainly in red (represented by red in transcription). Basic text in centre, inset from margins, surrounded by 2-5 lines of commentary top and bottom.Colophon (commentary, folio 270 recto): iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrībhāratītīrthavidyāraṇyamunivaryakiṃkareṇa śrīrāmakṛṣṇākhyaviduṣā viracite brahmānande viṣayanaṃdī nāma pañcamo dhyāyaḥ ॥ 15 ॥ ॥ pañcadaśaprakaraṇasamāptaḥ ॥ ॥...
Dates:
Undated.
Papers of Douglas Young.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8144
Scope and Contents
Including a thesis and commentary on Theognis, and notes and correspondence on literary and academic matters.
Dates:
1941-1968.
Part of a commentary on Aristotle`s "Categoriae".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11363- is now MS.25239
Dates:
15th 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.
‘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.
`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.
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 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 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 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.