Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, MS.14782-14783


Century: XVII (a.1664-1666)

Number of folios: two volumes, 289 and 325

Material: chart.

Height: 302

Width: 185

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Previous shelf mark(s): K.6.5-K.6.6

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • John Marquess of Tweeddale, Earl of Gifford etc. (bookplate saec. XIX) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XIX.1, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: two pillars, each bearing three balls, between them letters PDC, beneath the middle a double spiral, above the middle a large bunch of grapes (vol. 1 flyleaf, p. 11, 471, 553, 581, vol. 2 p. 97, 117, 223, 393); different two pillars, between them letters PR6 (vol. 1 p. 111, 207, 357); different two pillars, between them letters MDC (vol. 2 p. 3); different two pillars, each bearing a fleur-de-lis, between them letters MA, beneath the middle a double spiral, above the middle a large bunch of grapes and a fleur-de-lis (vol. 2 p. 313); jug, large, with letters I and beneath DV, on base a fleur-de-lis, on collar a fleur-de-lis, on the lid five almost round skittles, each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a fleur-de-lis (vol. 1 pag. 569); hat, 60 x 60 mm, on its rim letters MDO (vol. 2 p. 533, 559, 595, 651 good)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*