Manuscripta juridica

Catalogue of books .

Rough scribbling, done in haste, with many unclear abbreviations, difficult to decipher. Probably scribbled on dictation: errors in the spelling of authors' names suggest this. Since the leaves 1-10 constitute one fascicle of paper, and since the subsequent text in that fascicle can be dated to 1640, this is a terminus ante quem for the catalogue.

Between the front cover and the beginning of the volume there is a letter by David Laing, 1855/01/05, with the seal of The Bannatyne Club: Laing had borrowed this MS for some time, to analyse it. In the late 19th century he was the librarian of the Signet Library

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No. of pages: Fol. 2r

Rubric: The names of the books gb S Tarb to Th(r)(aimie?)s [{i}= g(iven?) b(y?) S(ir?) Tarb(at?) ...{/i}].

[{i}Left column:{/i}].

First my litle Bible. One anon. acts of Parliament. One old acts of Parliament. The Inglisch acts of Parliament. Vesembequi Paratitula [{i}Matthaeus Wesenbeck, German law professor: Paratitla in Codicem et in Digesta{/i}]. Althusis Politica [{i}another German lawyer{/i}]. Buchanan Chronica. Vulteii Jurisprudentia [{i}again a German lawyer, professor in the Netherlands{/i}]. Institutiones juris [{i}probably not the text by Emperor Justinian, but rather a commentary to it{/i}]. (Knox?) Chronicles. Vindiciae contra tyrannos [{i}anonymous, formerly suspected to be written by François Hotman, but this is unlikely{/i}]. Politica Daren. [{i}Duarenus?- a French lawyer{/i}]. Axiomata Lipsii [{i}Justus Lipsius, German lawyer{/i}].

[{i}Right column, different hand{/i}.

Two Inglisch Sermones. Parqueii (Cassi). Parquei Politeia. (Altare) (damnationum). (B)uce(sner) De regimine ecclesiae. Inglisch (alb...tial). (Tratair) Disciplina. Inglisch popisch ceremonies. Book of discipline ec. Bucani (Pi...atur). Admonition to the Parliament. Two volumes of one old (C...us) of the late treatises. Two Pastor et praelat. (St....ted) liturgie. (In bischoping) Timotheus et (te....it). The litle ab(ridget) (c.... citet). Fomeci [={i}Gomezii?{/i}] Theologia. Amesii Theologia. (Gla..... ..asch) prented