Manuscripta juridica

Formularium - Scottish Styles of proceedings in court .

Styles from the time of King Charles I and before. Few of them are dated: for instance, a litis contestation is dated 1620/2/11. A letter of attorney at Leith, 1638/5/1. Act anent plantation of schools, 1616/11/10.

The style book is arranged by keywords dedicated to different topics of litigation, providing styles for court documents as well as for pertinent charters to be written outside the court (and then to be registered in the Registers of Deeds of the court). The styles are written on the larger parts of the pages. A Lectura Institutionum is inserted into the text of the style book, at times filling entire pages, at other times using only a part of a page or only the margin. This other work is described below. On the first pages, its text does not particularly correlate to the pertinent styles among which it is interspersed - or at least not closely. There exists, however, a clear correlation on fol. 68v-69r, 80r ss., 92r ss. and further onward. Initially one may think that the writer just followed a course on litigation and conveyancing and concurrently happened to follow a course on the Institutes of the emperor Justinian, so that he wrote lecture notes from both courses into the same note book. It appears later, however, that the lecture notes of Roman law and the texts of styles have deliberately been joined together

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No. of pages: Fol. 1r-8r, 11va-21r, 23v-40v, 45r-53r, 57r-64r, 65v-72r, 76r-80r, 81v-84r etc., to end:

Incipit:

• The kingis summondis of reductioun. Charles be the grace of God kinge of Great Britanne, France and Ireland