Manuscripta juridica

Institutes of the law of Scotland .

See Dolezalek, Scotland under Jus Commune, vol. 1-3, Edinburgh 2010 (The Stair Society), for handwritten dissemination of this work and other specific Scottish legal literature. The coat of arms on Hew Dalrymple's bookplate in this volume might be identical to the one used by his ancestor, the first Viscount Stair. First quadrant: a shape of character 'X', constituted by two broad beams, with 9 rhombus shapes therein. Second quadrant: a shape of character 'V' upside down, chequered, and three shapes which liken Greek character 'pi', or can also be read as a broad character 'A'. Third quadrant: a broad cross, and in each corner a shell. Fourth quadrant: four sub-quadrants, nr. 1 and 4 with a shape like a character 'V' upside down, nr. 2 and 3 three birds, looking towards the left side

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Author(s): James Dalrymple, later 1st Viscount Stair, President of the Court of Session at Edinburgh

No. of pages: Series 2, pages 1-428

Rubric: Titulus primus. Comon principles. 1. Discriptione of lawes of nature, jurisprudence and law

Incipit:

• Iurisprudence is the knowledge [and then:] of ryght ratione or will to give evrie man his right

Explicit:

• (Title 28:) 10 July 1630 Patrick White contra Ruthven