Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, MS.2706

Century: XVII (a.1697)

Number of folios: viii +599

Material: chart.

Height: 289

Width: 179

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • George Neilson, historian at Glasgow a.1858-1923, Esq. LLD (Possessor)
  • Aeneas Mackay Esq., Edinburgh (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XVIII, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: bugle horn in a shield, and beneath it letters HC (first treatise, first part of second treatise, third treatise: fol. 3 weak, 21 weak, 121, 281, 468, 584, 599); fleur-de-lis, small, with three ribbons (Strasbourg) in crowned shield (fol. 296, 298, 304, 314); arms of Amsterdam, large (fol. 325); letters BRED, large, irregularly shaped (fol. 332 ss., 350 good, 360 good, 364); jug, several different types (end parts of second treatise: fol. 382, 392, 460, 462); lion rampant whose paw emits flashes of lightning, in a crowned double circle (middle parts of second treatise and blank leaves bound between the treatises: fol. 123, 291, 463-464), with countermark large letters CDG (fol. 124, 295, 465)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*