Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Accession 7215


Century: XVII medies

Number of folios: ii +338 +iv

Material: chart.

Height: 297

Width: 188

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • James Angus (a.1728) (Possessor)
  • Mairy (saec. XVIII) (Possessor)

Cover: contemporary, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: two pillars, between them letters PDC, above the middle a large bunch of grapes (first series of pagination from 3 onwards, e.g. 90 [good], second series of pagination e.g. 33, 146, 154 [good]); two pillars, between them letters GNH or GNR, above the middle a large bunch of grapes (paper interspersed in first series of pagination, e.g. 178, and in third series of pagination from 91 onwards to second flyleaf at end, e.g. 171 [good]); letters ION or NOI in a frame (third series of pagination, first part, e.g. 71 [good]); cross, broad, in crowned shield - arms of London?, countermark letters GD [italic] (last flyleaves at end); bugle horn in a shield, weak (second series of pagination, e.g. 89, 95, 118, 124); jug, large, with letters I and beneath P, on the lid five almost round skittles, each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and then a fleur-de-lis (second series of pagination, e.g. 63)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*