Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NR Scotland, GD1/328/2

Century: XVII.2

Number of folios: ca. 375

Material: chart.

Height: 303

Width: 210

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Messrs. Millar and Bryce, searchers of records, Edinburgh, presented the volume to NA Scotland in 1938 (Possessor)
  • Alexander Branders, Elgin, bought a.1767 (fol. 1r) (Possessor)
  • A.D. Wright, schoolmaster at Rothes (note in 19th c. handwriting on a blue paper card in the volume) (Possessor)
  • Cochrane (fol. 1r) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XVII</p> <p> Watermark: jug, large, with letters I, and beneath DV, on the large base a fleur-de-lis, on the lid five broad skittles, each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom, above it a fleur-de-lis, altogether 110 mm high (pag. 9, 11, 17, 22, last seen in pag. 545); jug with letters M and beneath DP, on collar an ornament likening a broad letter V, handle's lines parallel, on the lid five long skittles, four of them bear three balls, middle skittle bears a four-petaled blossom, above it a fleur-de-lis, altogether 96 x 49 mm (first seen in pag. 549, very clear in penultimate leaf)

Literature quoting this MS: Dolezalek, Scotland under Jus Commune, vols. 1 and 3

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*