Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






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*