Commentaries.
Subject
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Scope Note: Treatises or series of comments that systematically explain or annotate another work.
Found in 123 Collections and/or Records:
13th-century manuscript containing theological works by Boethius and St Augustine, and short excerpts of works by Anselm, Eadmer, St Gregory of Tours, St Caesarius of Arles, and Bernard of Clairvaux.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.18
Scope and Contents
13th-century manuscript produced in England containing a selection of theological works from the 'Opuscula sacra' of Boethius, Sermons of St Augustine, and excerpts from Eadmer, Anselm, St Gregory of Tours, St Caesarius of Arles, and Bernard of Clairvaux; as well as two annonymous excerpts, the 'Gesta Salvatoris' and a commentary on Psalm 84.The manuscript has been dated to the 13th century by Ker, and to the early 14th century by Borland, Römer, and Schenkl. The work...
Dates:
13th century.
13th-century manuscript of 'Aurora' by Peter Riga.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.4
Scope and Contents
The text is that of the third mediaeval version (see Paul E Beichner`s edition, volume 1, page xix), but like Notre Dame University Library MS.2, does not include the Liber Iob and Cantica Canticorum. The author`s name is given in a colophon to the Evangelium (folio 155 recto).The manuscript has been misbound, and folios 89-104 should precede folio 81. One passage in III Kings, which Beichner (volume 1, page 300, lines 13-66) attributes to the first recension of Aegidius, is...
Dates:
13th century.
15th-century manuscript of the 'Moralia in Job' of Pope Gregory I.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.6
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland containing Books XXIII-XXXV of Pope Gregory I's 'Commentary on Job', also known as the 'Moralia, sive Expositio in Job', or the 'Magna Moralia'.The manuscript was written in the 15th century, before 1483, at which date it was donated to Dunkeld Cathedral. Watermark evidence also suggests a date of the latter half of the 15th century.The work is written in double columns on folios 1r-15v and in a single block of text from folios 16r-187r,...
Dates:
15th century, before 1483.
15th-century manuscript of uncertain origin which contains miscellaneous works, mostly theological
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A version of the first two parts of the `Secretum Secretorum`. It corresponds to the text published in ‘Opera ... Rogeri Baconi’, fascicle V, pages 38-75, but is a very much shorter version, omitting the whole of caps. ii (the prologue of John), iv and viii, and many passages elsewhere. There are a few insertions and corrections in another hand. Begins `Quando allexander subiugavit sibi perses`. Ends `una vice post aliam et sic...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Extracts from the `Vita beatissimi Malachie`, caps. 1-25. See ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 1073-1104 (folio 1 verso).(ii) Notes on vipers with reference to Aristotle (folio 8 verso).(iii) `De conversione ad clericos`, cap. 3. ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 856-857 (folio 9).(iv) `Bernardus de servitute vitiorum et incertitudine mortis` (folio 10).(v) Anonymous commentaries on the Song of...
Dates:
15th century.
“An analysis of a footnote in Dr O. R. Ransford (1978) ‘David Livingstone: the dark interior'”, 1978, and “Further comments on Dr O. Ransford (1978) ‘David Livingstone: the dark interior'”, 1979., 1978, 1979.
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Identifier: MS.20339
Annotated edition of David Livingstone’s journal, 1861-1863, by Vero Bosazza and Rozina G Visram., 1861-1863, 1975.
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Identifier: MS.20337
Bifolium containing parts of a commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew in a version similar to the earlier Wycliffite translation., 15th century.
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Identifier: MS.6124
Scope and Contents
The leaves are not consecutive. The commentary runs from Matthew iii, 16-iv, 7, and v, 10-12.
Large initial in blue with pen-work decoration in red. Paragraph marks in red and blue.
On folio 1 is a sixteenth-century inscription relating to a survey of Swanton Abbot (Norfolk).
Dates:
15th century.
Brahmasūtrabhāṣya of Śaṅkara, a commentary on the Brahmasūtra, the authoritative aphorisms of Vedānta philosophy.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in Devanāgarī script.The text is a commentary on the Brahmasūtra, the authoritative aphorisms of Vedānta philosophy.The side margins ruled in red, erasures with yellow; mostly no daṇḍas but space has been left for later insertion (presumably in red).Colophon (folio 61 verso): iti śrīmacchārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣye śrīmacchaṃkarabhagavatpādakṛtau tṛtīyasyadhyāyasya caturthaḥ pādaḥ 4 samāpto yaṃ tṛtīyo dhyāyaḥ cha (7 times) [that is,...
Dates:
Undated.
Collection of tales and verse compiled for Ronald MacDonald of Staffa, Advocate, by Iain MacMhuirich (John MacPherson), schoolmaster in Mull.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.1
Scope and Contents
Tales and Ossianic verse written down from the recitation of Donald MacLean (born 1715), who had most of his material from his grandfather Malcolm MacPhail (Calum Mac Phail), Rothill, Torosay. Macpherson's foreword is dated April 1803; the date on the back of the final leaf gives the dating of ‘1802-3-& 4’.The contents are included as collection "P" in John Francis Campbell of Islay's 'Leabhar na Feinne' (London 1872), and page numbers are given below; see also pages...
Dates:
1802-1804, 1871.
Commentaries by Robert Balfour on the works of Aristotle.
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Identifier: Acc.8423
Dates:
1608-1609.
Commentaries on the Book of Job, and copies of letters.
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Identifier: Acc.8780
Scope and Contents
Many of the letters concern James Hervey`s "Theron and Aspasio", all apparently of Glasite tendency.
Dates:
circa 1772-1800.
Commentary and critique, by Frieda and Martin Gostwick, on the edition of Hugh Miller`s "Memoir" (Edinburgh, 1995) by Michael Shortland and Harry Hanham.
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Identifier: Acc.11221
Dates:
1995.
Commentary, late 17th century or early 18th century, on the digests of the civil law., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
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Identifier: MS.14799
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Commentary on Aristotle, ‘Physica’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.7
Scope and Contents
Neat manuscript in a French hand of the 17th century of ‘Commentarius in universam Aristotelis physicam’.
Dates:
17th century.
Commentary on book four of a legal work, chiefly on actions.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.7.10
Dates:
17th century.
Commentary on book iii (revised) of John Milton's ‘Paradise lost’, by John Callander of Craigforth., 1751.
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Identifier: MS.2163
Commentary on book iv (revised) of John Milton's ‘Paradise lost’, by John Callander of Craigforth., 1752.
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Identifier: MS.2164
Commentary on book v (revised) of John Milton's ‘Paradise lost’, by John Callander of Craigforth., [1752, or after.]
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Identifier: MS.2165
Commentary on book xii of John Milton's ‘Paradise lost’, by John Callander of Craigforth., [1748, or after.]
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Identifier: MS.2162
Commentary on books ii-iii of John Milton's ‘Paradise lost’, by John Callander of Craigforth., 1748.
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Identifier: MS.2157
Commentary on books iii-v of John Milton's ‘Paradise lost’, by John Callander of Craigforth., [1748, or after.]
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Identifier: MS.2158
Commentary on books ix-x of John Milton's ‘Paradise lost’, by John Callander of Craigforth., [1748, or after.]
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Identifier: MS.2160