Manuscripta juridica

NOTARIA Treatise on the office of notary public 'After God had created the heavens' .

Still contains many styles in Latin, and explains them in a mix of Scots/English and Latin. On style mentions a King George (pag. 61). August 1714 is thus a {i}terminus post quem{/i} for the work. Preface obviously written in 1737

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No. of pages: Pag. 1-235

Rubric: Ane essay on the office of nottary

Incipit:

• After God had created the heavens, earth and all liveing creatures, he then made man after his own image, on the 6th day, and gave him dominion over all liveing creatures ... [{i}mentions the notaries of Roman antiquity (the tabelliones), then:{/i}] Being to treat of the office of nottary, we shall consider primo what a nottar is, secundo why called 'nottar', tertio who are capable of that office, quarto who can make them, quinto the manner and form of creating them, sexto of their office in generall and the use and design thereof, septimo of the office of nottary with us in Scotland. ... Scotland has been a free and independent state for 2037 years, under 113 princes, from Fergus his coronation 330 years before Christ, anno mundi 3641, to the union of Scotland and England anno mundi 5678, domini 1707, as is demonstrate by severall of our countrymen, particularly Craig Anderson and Bruce.

  (End:) which may be thus: 'quod haec duabusque precedentibus paginis constat', and quhen the instrument is written upon embossed parchment, it's not amiss to say 'super pergaminam sigillatam', and all

Explicit:

• the pages of the instrument must be signed by the nottar and witnesses. Finis