Manuscripta juridica

Tractatus de iure successionis in regno Angliae model for typesetting.

Subdivided into two books. As the present MS indicates, Sir Thomas Craig finished the text on the 29th of December 1602. Written by only one scribe in very neat characters, placed upon generously spaced lines.

on thick paper. The scribe did not apply usual Scottish chancery handwriting but wrote in characters as used in Latin printed books at that time. The MS can thus not be securely dated on grounds of its character of.

handwriting, but the watermark suggests that the MS was produced not long after 1600. I deem that this MS was produced to serve as a model for printing - as Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.7.1.10 which shows similar characteristics and is written on the same type of paper

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Author(s):

• Thomas Craig of Riccarton

No. of pages: Fol. iii - vi and pag. 1-655

Rubric: [{i}Title, fol. iii recto:{/i}] De jure successionis regni Angliae, libri duo, adversus sophismata cujusdam personati Dolomanni, quibus non solum jura successionis in regnis, sed etiam ipsorum regum sacrosanctam authoritatem nititur evertere

Incipit:

• (Dedication, fol. iv recto - vi recto:) Serenissimo principi Jacobo sexto Scotorum regi, domino suo clementissimo. Nihil mihi unquam minus in mentem venerat ... (Dedication dated:) Edinburgi Kal. Januarii 1603. M. T. deditissimus T. Craigius
• (Main text:) Liber primus. Omnis de rebus magnis disputatio a ratione debet procedere, cap. 1. Nemini mirum videri debet, si qui in bene constituta civitate aut republica aliquandiu vixerint, de ejus salute et commodis sint solliciti

Explicit:

• et ut cum Virgilio concludam: Paribus se legibus ambae invictae gentes aeterna in foedera mittant. Finis