Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae "Modus tenendi curias baronum"

Incipit:

  • Item it is to remember and wit [and then:] that first and formest

Explicit:

  • lauchfullie\ and\ maner\ dew\ of\

Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae "Modus tenendi curias baronum" (in Scots).

Written by one scribe, on paper with a watermark identical or very similar to fol. 25 etc., thus contemporary or not much younger. Above the first page an 18th c. hand has written 'Vol. 2'. I thus assume that the leaves 2-18 had originally formed a separate unit, not bound in one volume with leaves 19-124. The latter show a quite different character of handwriting

No. of pages: Fol. 2r-18v

Rubric: [{i}First item:{/i}] The baroun lawis. Modus tenendi curias

Incipit:

  • Quhat the court sall haif to be callit lauchfull. Item it is to remember and wit that first and formest, quhair court suld be haldin,

Explicit:

  • maid out of dew maner and lauchfullie

Colophon: Explicit modus tenendi curias baronum