Manuscripta juridica

Tractatus de feudis "Jus feudale" .

Anonymous and without title. The main text is written by several scribes, on three types of paper. The same scribe who penned fol. 83-114 continued on different paper, with different ink, on fol. 115 ss. Modern foliation in pencil. Old foliation in ink starts on modern fol. 4, thus after the dedication - which was only added after the main text was ready and foliated. This is also corroborated by the fact that the dedication is written on a special type of paper. These facts and the addition on fol. 1r (quoted below) nourish the suspicion that the manuscript was produced as a tidy copy for submission to the king and/or Secret Council, in order to obtain a grant for the costs of printing.

[{i}Addition to the end of the first book, written on fol. 1r:{/i}] Hec verba adjicienda sunt postremis verbis primi libri ad hunc signum [{i}Reference sign - a cross with circles at the end of each beam{/i}]: Tritum enim est illud Catonis

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Author(s):

• Thomas Craig of Riccarton

No. of pages: Fol. 1r-260r

Incipit:

• [{i}Main text, fol. 4r:{/i}] De iure tam civili quam pontificii origine, et quis utriusque apud nos usus sit. Diegesis prima. Antequam feudorum naturam et conditionem tractare aggrediar
• [{i}Dedication precedes:{/i}] Serenissimo augustissimoque principi Jacobo dei gratia Magnae Britanniae, Franciae et Hiberniae regi potentissimo. Nihil hodie relictum est nobis.

  [{i}Last heading, in the third book, fol. 254r:{/i}] De veterum iudiciorum forma in causa feudali. Diegesis septima

Explicit:

• ut prior sententia per vicecomites aut alios executioni mandetur.

  Fol. 260v blank