Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, MS.3170

Century: XVII.2

Number of folios: i +132

Material: chart.

Height: 298

Width: 188

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Johne McKenzie servitor to Mr. Rorie McKenzie, advocat (fol. 101v) (Scribe)
  • John Dundas, writer to the Signet (bookplate) (Possessor)

Cover: contemporary, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: jug, large, with letters I and beneath GL, on large base a trefoil, handle's lines parallel, on the lid five almost round skittles, each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a fleur-de-lis. Altogether 118 mm high (fol. i, 1, 2, 70, 101, 106-107 [good]); two pillars, rounded, each bearing three balls, between them letters PDO, above the middle a bunch of grapes. In lower right corner beneath the pillars a frame with letters I M (fol. 103, 105 [good], 109, 129, 132 [good])

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*