Most of the still extant works of Aristotle, as well as a number of the original Greek commentaries, were translated into Arabic and studied by Muslim philosophers, scientists and scholars.

Schweitzer, who insisted that the score should show Bach's notation with no additional markings, wrote the commentaries for the Preludes and Fugues, and Widor those for the Sonatas and Concertos: six volumes were published in 1912 – 14.

The poetic works of Alcaeus were collected into ten books, with elaborate commentaries, by the Alexandrian scholars Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace sometime in the 3rd century BC, and yet his verses today exist only in fragmentary form, varying in size from mere phrases, such as wine, window into a man ( fr. 333 ) to entire groups of verses and stanzas, such as those quoted below ( fr. 346 ).

His commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was styled, by way of pre-eminence, " the commentator " ( ὁ ἐξηγητής ).

By the 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

There were a number of " commentaries " on the Sentences, but Alexander appears to have been the first magisterial commentary.

A number of his biblical commentaries were incorporated into the Glossa Ordinaria, an 11th-century collection of biblical commentaries.

Saint Sava began the work on the Serbian Nomocanon in 1208 while being at Mount Athos, using The Nomocanon in Fourteen Titles, Synopsis of Stefan the Efesian, Nomocanon of John Scholasticus, Ecumenical Councils ' documents, which he modified with the canonical commentaries of Aristinos and John Zonaras, local church meetings, rules of the Holy Fathers, the law of Moses, translation of Prohiron and the Byzantine emperors ' Novellae ( most were taken from Justinian's Novellae ).

Jean Baptiste Say was a French economist who introduced Adam Smith's economic theories into France and whose commentaries on Smith were read in both France and Britain.

Erasmus also translated the Latin text into Greek wherever he found that the Greek text and the accompanying commentaries were mixed up, or where he simply preferred the Vulgate ’ s reading to the Greek text.

Most important among his works were extensive commentaries on all of the official collections of papal decretals, papal judgments in the form of letters to delegated judges that were at the core of canon law.

They were then recorded in the Mishnah, and explained in the Talmud and commentaries throughout history, including today.

Later commentaries were accepted by many rabbis as final rule, however, other rabbis may disagree.

In one of the Wimsey Papers, a series of fictionalised commentaries in the form of mock letters between members of the Wimsey family published in the Spectator, there is a reference to Harriet's difficulty in continuing to write murder mysteries at a time when European dictators were openly committing mass murders with impunity ; this seems to have reflected Sayers ' own wartime feeling.

Some of the most common genres were bibles, religious commentaries, philosophy, law and government texts.

Rabbinic commentaries on the Mishnah over the next three centuries were redacted as the Gemara, which, coupled with the Mishnah, comprise the Talmud.

Both kinds of Midrashim were at first preserved only orally ; but their writing down commenced in the 2nd century, and they now exist in the shape chiefly of exegetical or homiletical commentaries on Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ).

Vocabularies, grammars, and interlinear translations were compiled for the use of students, as well as commentaries on the older texts and explanations of obscure words and phrases.

In 1969-70 he was presenter of The Golden Silents on BBC TV, which attempted authentic showings of silent films, without the commentaries with which they were usually shown on television before then.

Citing Buddhist sutras and commentaries, Nichiren argued that the Buddhist teachings were being distorted for their own gain.

He is esteemed for the strong humanism of his essays, the analytical depth of his commentaries on classical Tamil literature and philosophy, and the clear, fluid style of his prose.

His works were highly esteemed by the Neoplatonists, and Plotinus ' student Amelius ( who was critical of Gnosticism, see Neoplatonism and Gnosticism ) is said to have composed nearly two books of commentaries upon them.

The intermediate level, iyyun ( concentration ), consists of study with the help of commentaries such as Rashi and the Tosafot, similar to that practised among the Ashkenazim ( historically Sephardim studied the Tosefot ha-Rosh and the commentaries of Nahmanides in preference to the printed Tosafot ).

The English translations of two of Franz Delitzsch's commentaries are among his other works.

Subsequent centuries produced commentaries and reformulations continuing up to as late as the 20th century by Aurobindo and Prabhupada among others.

The reports and commentaries of the newspaper are always regarded as radical, objective, fair and well-balanced among the Hong Kong newspapers, since the editors are quite outspoken and bold to criticize the HKSAR and the Chinese central government in the ' Editorial ' section.

It has earned major commentaries from, among others, Leopoldo Lugones, Miguel de Unamuno, Jorge Luis Borges ( see Borges on Martín Fierro ) and Rafael Squirru.

What tends to be overlooked in these types of commentaries is that some of the most desired men and women are, inexplicably, also among the involuntarily celibate, which makes it unlikely that pressuring women to date and / or marry less desirable men or vice versa through a sense of " duty " or obligation, as was the case before the sexual revolution, would actually in itself put a stop to the incel phenomenon, whether for men in particular or either gender generally.

The 2-disc " special edition " features deleted scenes, several audio commentaries, Sandler's short film " A Day with the Meatball ", among others.

It has been suggested among biblical critical commentaries that the name " Samuel " in the story of Samuel is a better etymological reference to the name Saul, and because of this it has been posited that the stories may have been displaced at one time in the narrative's transmission history.

In the US an Alan Clarke boxset was issued that included several films, among them both the BBC original and cinema version of the film plus audio commentaries.

More than a hundred works are attributed to him, among which are commentaries on nearly all parts of the Veda ; some were carried out by his pupils, and some were written in conjunction with his brother Mādhava or.

The most notable author among the Geonim was Saadia Gaon, who wrote Biblical commentaries and many other works: he is best known for the philosophical work Emunoth ve-Deoth.

However, his detailed commentaries explaining portions of the Bible in Spanish were highly popular among his peers.

Henry Adams Bellows maintains in his commentaries that it is patchwork of various poems that do not fit well together, but stanzas 28-37 and 39-50 are held to be among the finest in Old Norse poetry.

He began as a conservative and patriotic writer of verses, commentaries, and translations in local daily newspapers ; but through his reading of, among others, the English socialist Robert Blatchford, he gradually adopted a more liberal and even radical attitude.

Both commentaries ( Taz and Magen Abraham ), together with the main text, the Shulchan Aruch, were republished frequently with several other commentaries, and still hold first rank among halakhic authorities.

In the 21st century, Richie provided audio commentaries for The Criterion Collection on DVDs of various classic Japanese films, notably those of Ozu ( A Story of Floating Weeds and Early Summer ), Mikio Naruse ( When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ), and Kurosawa ( Drunken Angel, Rashomon, The Lower Depths, and The Bad Sleep Well ), among others.

Nakamura was an expert on Sanskrit and Pali, and among his many writings are commentaries on Buddhist scriptures.

Traditionally, it has been bestowed upon or used for acharyas belonging to the Vedānta school ( among the six traditional schools of thought in Hinduism ) who have written Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthānatrayī ( literally the three sources )-the Brahma Sutra ( the original scripture of Vedānta ), the Bhagavad Gita ( part of the Mahābhārata ) and the principal Upanishads.

It is counted in its own right as among the most important commentaries on the Torah.

As it progressed, the series adopted a more dramatic tone, with several installments featuring social commentaries on gang activities, violence among youths, the consequences of drug use on childbirth, and the plight of African-Americans in the United States.