Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Accession 10375


Century: XVI.2

Number of folios: 157

Material: chart.

Height: 199

Width: 150

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • James Grant a.1789 (fol. 2) (Possessor)
  • John Anderson, London a.1811 (front cover) (Possessor)
  • John Mackie, saec. XVIII (fol. 3-4 et 11-12) (Possessor)

Cover: contemporary in parchment</p> <p> Watermark: jug with letters RF, on the lid five spikes, each with balls on top (difficult to count), above the middle a four-petaled blossom (fol. 4, 11, 13 plus 15 [good], 22 plus 30, 88 [good], 147-149, 163).</p> <p> Blank spaces in the volume were used in the 18th century for various notes - mostly about accounts

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*