Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, MS.5433

Century: XVII.1

Number of folios: 52

Material: chart.

Height: 202

Width: 155

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Thomas Hamilton of Drumcairn, 1st Earl of Haddington(?) (flyleaf 1) (Possessor)
  • Andreas Hamilton, a.1633 (Possessor)
  • Robert Carre Esq., a.1656 (on flyleaf, also on cover beneath a date 1681 or 1661) (Possessor)

Cover: contemporary in recycled parchment of a document dated 1533. On the cover the initials 'R K', twice embossed</p> <p> Watermark: two pillars, between them probably letters, but they cannot clearly be seen, above them a bunch of grapes (fol. 3 [good], 4, 7, 12 [good], 14, 17, 50, 51).</p> <p> Handwriting: hasty hand, in pale ink, on fol. 2 badly blurred by ink corrosion

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*