Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Ius proprium Scotiae - College of Justice : institution 1532-1534

Incipit:

  • Sessio inchoata in presentia [and then:] excellentissimi et serenissimi regis

Ius proprium Scotiae - College of Justice: institution 1532-1534 and instructions for the College's functioning. For the date when this list was compiled, see fol. 14v, 18r - and the same time frame will result from the names of senators in fol. 21-22.

The National Archives also preserve an authenticated copy of this text, in seven pages, signed by King James V. A facsimile of it was published by Henry James, {i}Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland, selected under the Direction of the Right Honourable Sir William Gibson Craig, Bart., Lord Clerk Register of Scotland{/i}, Part III, nr. XX, Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office 1871

No. of pages: Fol. 2r-8v

Incipit:

  • Sessio inchoata in presentia excellentissimi et serenissimi regis ac domini nostri, domini Jacobi illius nominis quinti, Scotorum principis, apud Edinburgh, 27 die mensis Maii anno domini 1532