Manuscripta juridica

Decisiones curiae supremae Scotiae - Practicks 1540-1549 .

Good ink, relatively easily readable, could easily be photographed. The text is anglicised. Nevertheless the text at times lapses into old Scots spellings. The scribe understood Latin, and he even copied some references to the Jus Commune correctly. It is thus still worth while controlling whether the present MS copy might prove helpful for the edition, and in particular for the Latin text passages and quotations.

Many items are lacking. Already among the provisional edition's first twenty six items, thirteen are not present: 3-4, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16a, 18-23. The item 16 is shortened and its end differs. The item 24 has entirely different wording. I have spot-checked other items and have often found deviations from the provisional edition

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Author(s):

• John Sinclair later Bishop of Brechin

No. of pages: Pag. 1-207

Rubric: Certain practiques observed be Mr. Henry Sinclair Dean of Glasgow, one of the ordinair Lords of Sessione, by King James the fyft his commandement, from the year 1540 to the year of God 1550

Explicit:

• [{i}Last item:{/i}] In causa domini de Durie contra Robertum Stevart de Dumfermling casus erat talis: Umquhill Archibald Ramsay de Dunnun ... Ideo ratione assedationis non servatae recte petit