Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.6.2.5

Century: XVII in.

Number of folios: 81 +56

Material: chart.

Height: 192

Width: 180

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Previous shelf mark(s): A.6.39

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, later King's Advocate (Scribe)
  • James Hope a.1656 [obviously Lord Hopetoun, 1614-1661] (Possessor)
  • Thomas Hope (saec. XVII.2., flyleaf of second series of foliation) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XVIII, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: jug, simple shape, with letters M L (or E), on the lid five spikes, bearing two, one, three, one, two balls. Above the middle spike's balls a vertical staff, holding a lying half moon (lower part fol. 7, 9, 10, 77 good, 81 good, second series fol. 7, 10, 57, upper part fol. 2, 64, second series 11 best, but weak).</p> <p> Flyleaf, recto: possessor's note: December 1656. This booke of Practicks from 3 Februari 1610 to 17 Februari 1619 under my fathers hand, gifted to me by my nephew Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, for which I promised him a copie under a more legible hand. Ja. Hope. [{i}Lord Hopetoun was a younger brother of Sir Thomas Hope of Kerse (1606-1643), and both were sons of the author - therefrom results that the present MS is an autograph. The promised 'copy under a more legible hand' can be identified as the actual Adv.MS.6.2.11. In the edition of Hope's Major practicks by Lord Clyde, the note in the present MS is confounded with the one in Adv.MS.6.5.9 - see Lord Clyde's preface, p. xxiv.{/i}]

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*