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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:

Commentary on ‘Isagoge’ on Galen’s 'Tegni', by Johannicius (Honein ben Ishak); and, commentary on the 'Aphorisms' of Hippocrates by Oribasius, both written by the same scribe in the 12th century and bound together at least from the 15th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.13
Scope and Contents (i) Commentary on ‘Isagoge’ on Galen’s ‘Tegni`, by Johannicius (Honein ben Ishak), incipit `Cum inter omnia animalia humanum corpus` (Thorndike-Kibre, col. 311). Frequent quotations from the text of Johannicius are included, incipit `Medicina diuiditur in duas partes idest in theoriam and practicam` (folio 1). Folio 49 verso blank.(ii) Commentary on Hippocrates, `Aphorisms’, by Oribasius, incipit ‘Afforismorum Ypocratis huius noue editionis ea causa extitit`...
Dates: 12th century.

Commentary on Justinian, ‘Digest’, books 12-24 (attributed to Sir Thomas Hope, Lord Kerse).

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.5.5(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents

On the first page is written, ‘This is called Sir Thomas Hope of Kerse or Carse his paratitla in digesta, 2 volumes, but whether complete may be doubted’.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (M.6.20).

Dates: 17th century.

Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).

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Identifier: MS.8493
Scope and Contents

The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.

Dates: Early 19th century.

Composite volume containing works on Latin grammar and versification.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.13
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘Doctrinale’ by Alexander, de Villa Dei, with the anonymous commentary ‘Aurea Grammatica’ [Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, ca.1482] (‘Repertorium Bibliographicum’, number 7859; ‘Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum’, number 2174), containing some, but not all, large initials supplied in red or blue, numerous interlinear and marginal additions, mostly quite brief, rubrication and other marks added to initials, and a...
Dates: Late 15th century.

Copies of correspondence of Alexander Christie and other papers, volume II: copies of letters, verse, etc., on Montrose politics; bound with Christie’s printed work on the same subject, ‘An address to the public’ (Montrose, 1790)., 1781, 1789-1791.

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Identifier: MS.3702
Scope and Contents

The papers particularly concern the building of a bridge, 1789-1791. There is also an address of Alexander Christie, 1781, and his commentary on the whole.

The caricatures on the plate facing page 56 of the printed book are identified by manuscript notes as (from left to right) David Scott of Dunninald, Provost Adam Glegg, and Alexander Christie himself.

Dates: 1781, 1789-1791.

Correspondence of Alexander Christie, Provost of Montrose, and other material relating to the affairs of the town, with discussions of Christie's religious and political views, copied by Christie.

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Identifier: MSS.3701-3703
Scope and Contents

The correspondents are mainly notables of Angus, divines, political thinkers, and merchants, and include Alexander Christie's brother William, the Unitarian writer, his son Thomas, the political writer, Sir David Carnegie, Baronet, George Dempster of Dunnichen, David Scott of Dunninald, the Reverend William Dalrymple (subject of "The Kirk's Alarm"), T F Palmer, the reformer, Robertson, the historian, and Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1781, 1789-1793.

Devotional writings by a member of the Episcopal Church of Scotland., 1713-[1717, or before].

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Identifier: MS.2750
Scope and Contents

The devotional writings begin with "Prayers I composed while in my Father's House in Inverury", 1713-1714 (page 1), and continue with commentaries, liturgical excerpts, prayers, versifications, etc. In another hand are copies of letters (page 315) of M G, who 'died the 9th of June 1717 in the 70th year of her age'.

Dates: 1713-[1717, or before].

Diary and account-book of the Reverend Dr Robert Douglas, minister of Galashiels, of a trip to Buxton, Matlock, and Llangollen, 10 June-21 August 1795, with miscellaneous poems and riddles., 1795.

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Identifier: MS.9754, folios 7-25
Scope and Contents

There is also a copy of a commentary on the diary with extracts from it, compiled by T Craig-Brown, and published in ‘The Border magazine’, June 1918, with a related letter, 1918.

Dates: 1795.

Diary of the Very Reverend Ronald Selby Wright, as Radio Padre and Chaplain to the Forces.

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Identifier: Acc.7427
Scope and Contents

With a typed transcript and commentary.

Dates: 1942.

Essay or sermon, and part of another, upholding the doctrines of the Reformed Episcopal Church against those of the Church of Rome, 17th century., 17th century, undated.

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Identifier: MS.3109, folios 44-63
Scope and Contents

The author of the former treatise mentions a work of his own entitled 'Orthodoxo-Jacobus'.

There is also (folio 57) a modern commentary, undated, on the Church accounts of Montrose (MS.3048).

Dates: 17th century, undated.

Fragments of a Latin commentary on Aristotle's ‘Categoriae', including parts of the 'Liber predicabilium' and 'Liber predicamentorum'.

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Identifier: MS.25239
Scope and Contents

The commentary is followed by a fragment of a manuscript in English (folio 34) and part of a vellum leaf from a 13th-century noted service book (folio 36).

Dates: 13th century, 15th century.

Illustrated comments on the Housing Act, 1972 (Scotland), by Lachlan M Dinwoodie.

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Identifier: Acc.5920
Scope and Contents

With illustrated verses, 1975, of Dinwoodie, "The Big Bell of Bow".

Dates: 1972, 1975.