| LOCATION | Edinburgh, NL Scotland |
| MANUSCRIPT | Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.2.1 |
Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.2.1
Century: XVII.1
Number of folios: 362
Material: chart.
Height: 308
Width: 200 mm, and two other volumes: 238 chart. 306 x 210 mm, and 108 chart. 318 x 208
Region and Place of Production: Britannia
Previous shelf mark(s): A.4.1-3
Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):
Cover: saec. XIX, leather on cardboard. On spine: HADDINGTONS DECISIONS. Front covers on all three volumes are loose. Two of them are far too big, they obviously belonged to another manuscript</p> <p> Watermark: in vol. 1: jug with letters OA and beneath B, on the lid five spikes, each with balls on top, above the middle a four-petaled blossom (fol. 4-22, 43-56); jug, very weak, hardly visible (fol. 25-40, interspersed); jug with two handles, weak, the handles are broad (fol. 61, 62 [good], 100); jug with letters PD (blank folio 99a, interspersed); jug, small, maybe with handle to the right and letters PD (fol. 101, 103-109a ss. [good]); jug with letters DL (fol. 110, perhaps resuming fol. 129); jug with two handles, badly malformed (fol. 116a); jug with two handles, small, with letters AO, or OA (fol. 117-122); different jug (fol. 135); watermarks of several other types can be found, but I did not note their shapes Watermarks in vol. 2: jug with letters MM and beneath B, long base, on the lid five spikes, bearing two, one, three, one, two balls, above the middle a lying half moon (fol. 1-2, 5, 6 [good], 9 [good], 21a [excellent], 24, 36-37); jug with letters PR, on the lid seven long skittles, above the middle a staff carrying a lying half moon (fol. 40-41); jug with broad letters PO, on base letter I, on collar a lying half moon, on the lid seven skittles, above the middle a small rod with a small blossom and then a small lying half moon (fol. 44, 47, 54, 61, 71, somewhat larger variety of same mark fol. 87, 87a, 90, 93, 98, 106, 113, 121, 140a); jug with letter H or EL(?), on collar a lying half moon, on the lid seven long skittles, above the middle a broad staff, holding a large lying half moon which has almost the shape of letter U (fol. 83-84); jug with letters PR, on the lid five large spikes, bearing two, one, three, one, two balls, above the middle a large four-petaled blossom (fol. 127-128); jug with letters IB, on collar a lying half moon, on the lid five tiny spikes, bearing two, one, three, one, two balls, above the middle a lying half moon (fol. 129); jug, small, slender, with letters C and beneath ON, on the lid five slender long spikes, the outer ones with one ball on top, the middle one with a four-petaled flower on top, and then a lying half moon (fol. 135); jug with handle on the right side, with letters R and beneath DC, on the lid three spikes bearing one, three, one ball, above the middle a lying half moon (fol. 141a); jug with letters PP, on collar a lying half moon, above the middle a staff with a lying half moon (fol. 203); jug with letters P and beneath BR, on the lid five spikes, above the middle a staff, holding a lying half moon (fol. 208, 215, 223, 225, 231-238).</p> <p> Watermarks in vol. 3: thistle, crowned, and beneath letters JR AR = Jacobus Rex, Anna Regina, Scottish paper under King James VI (vol. 3 fol. 1-4, 12-28 [good]); jug, weak, lid decorated with spikes which bear a ball, above the middle a four-petaled blossom (fol. 5-11 e.g. fol. 6); jug with letters PR, on the lid seven long skittles, above the middle a staff carrying a lying half moon (e.g. fol. 40); thereafter several types of jugs with simple decoration, difficult to see; jug with letters FD, on the lid seven long skittles, above the middle a staff carrying a lying half moon (blank leaves after fol. 106).</p> <p> Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil. In the first volume old foliation in ink, restarting several times, not comprising all numbers, and the differences from modern numbering suggest that some losses of folios must have occurred. In the second volume, old foliation in ink on the left upper corner of the folios. It differs from the modern foliation because the latter does not count blank leaves. Numbering 1-237, and thereafter 238-244 (the latter written in different manner, on leaves which were probably substituted, and younger)
Literature quoting this MS: Dolezalek, Scotland under Jus Commune, vols. 1 and 2
Analyzed by: Dolezalek*