Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NR Scotland, GD51/17/114

Century: XVII (a.1675/7/22)

Number of folios: 174 + 94

Material: chart.

Height: 324

Width: 295

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Dundas family of Melville, Viscounts Melville (bookplate), deposited in 1971 (Possessor)
  • J. W. (pag. 348) (Scribe)

Cover: contemporary, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: fool, guardant, with countermark PT (flyleaves in front); fool, very similar to the fool mentioned above, yet with countermark PC (last four flyleaves in back); fool, perhaps identical to the fool mentioned above, but very faint, and no countermark found (Durie's Practicks and beginning of Balmanno's Practicks); different fool, with countermark GCH (from p. 105 in Balmanno's Prackticks to first four flyleaves in back)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*