LOCATION | Edinburgh, NL Scotland |
MANUSCRIPT | Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.1.9 |
Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.1.9
Century: XVII ex. - XVIII.1
Number of folios: ix +284
Material: chart.
Height: 232
Width: 257
Region and Place of Production: Britannia
Previous shelf mark(s): A.3.31
Cover: saec. XIX, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: fleur-de-lis, large (fol. 27, 35, 46, 54, 71, 115, 140), with countermark a rectangle with letters C b O (fol. 67, 95); watermarks of other types exist in Nisbet's Practicks, but they are difficult to see unter the dark ink; fool (end of Nisbet, and fol. 94a); bunch of grapes, large (fol. 142, 153, 235-240, 247, 277), countermark a rectangle with broad letter C, then a heart, and then broad letter S (fol. 194, 213, 267, 275).</p> <p> Handwriting: the entire MS is written in large letters, easily readable, in dark ink on resistant paper in large folio format: the volume was obviously produced to be consulted by many readers, in a library
Literature quoting this MS: Dolezalek, Scotland under Jus Commune, vols. 1 and 2
Analyzed by: Dolezalek*