LOCATION | Edinburgh, NL Scotland |
MANUSCRIPT | Edinburgh, NL Scotland, MS.6505 |
Edinburgh, NL Scotland, MS.6505
Century: XVII.2-XVIII
Number of folios: 137
Material: chart.
Height: 395
Width: 165
Region and Place of Production: Britannia
Cover: contemporary, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: fool, seen from the side, details of face and hair nicely worked out (pag. 96-100 good).</p> <p> Catalogue of books.</p> <p> Entries of the 17th-18th centuries. Scottish handwriting. Not many law books. Emphasis on medicine and natural sciences suggests that the library was used by a physician, or a family of mainly physicians. Writing starts from both sides of the volume, and modern foliation in pencil thus tried to do the same. Old pagination in ink 1-274, throughout the volume
Literature quoting this MS: Dolezalek, Scotland under Jus Commune, vols. 1 and 2
Analyzed by: Dolezalek*