Commentaries.
Found in 123 Collections and/or Records:
Part of a commentary on Aristotle`s "Categoriae".
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.
Photocopies of papers from the Thomas Tait Collection.
With additional commentary and extracts compiled by William Tait, son of Thomas and co-creator of the collection.
Pocketbook 12 of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing chiefly an essay on the development of art, science and intellect in man., [1758, or after.]
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.
‘Relics of Correspondence with Sir Walter Scott, Explanatory Notes, and other Reminiscences, by J. Skene, Edinburgh, 1833’.
"Remarks on reading Pliny's history" and a draft introduction to MS.13917: Translations of a number of 'Indian letters'., [Circa 1805.]
`Riettarbætur Noregs Kónga.`
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.
Sermons and religious commentaries, possibly originating in Argyllshire.
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.
The manuscript is followed by a commentary in different hands of the same period (folio 182).
Theological works of Saints Jerome, Augustine, and others, written in the 12th century., 12th century.
Two commonplace books of George Glen Napier.
Containing quotations from Tennyson`s "In Memorium", press cuttings and commentaries.
Two contiguous vellum fragments, together forming the upper part of a bifolium of an unidentified commentary on the Book of Proverbs., 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.
Typed editorial comments, with author`s notes added, by R L C Lorimer.
Concerning Thomas Crawford, "Burns: A Study of the Poems and Songs" (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.]
The volume is lettered 'Vol. III'.
Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.
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.
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.
Typescript drafts, with manuscript corrections, of an audio-visual commentary for visitors to the Wallace Monument at Stirling by Sydney Goodsir Smith., ?1961.
Typescript of David Hamilton`s commentary on Thomas Mathison`s "The Goff. An Herio-Comical Poem in Three Cantos" (Edinburgh, 1743).
Typescripts and other material for “Joan Miró”: a fragmentary and personal memoir' by Ruthven Todd., 1947, 1971-1973, undated.
Typescripts and other material for “Joan Miró”: a fragmentary and personal memoir' by Ruthven Todd., 1947, 1971-1973, undated.
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.