Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, MS.168


Century: XVII.2

Number of folios: 69

Material: chart.

Height: 185

Width: 145

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • William Robert Reid, Lauriston castle, a.1915 (bookplate) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XVIII, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: jug, large, with letters N and beneath IC or LG, on base a trefoil, on collar a trefoil, handle's lines parallel, on the lid five round skittles, each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a fleur-de-lis (fol. 1, 4); fool (fol. 26); two pillars, rounded, above the middle a large bunch of grapes (fol. 45); bugle horn in crowned shield, and beneath it a fleur-de-lis (throughout the remainder of the volume, good to see in fol. 60-69)

Literature quoting this MS: Dolezalek, Scotland under Jus Commune, vols. 1 and 2

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*