Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.2.4b

Century: XVI (a.1593)

Number of folios: 290

Material: chart.

Height: 310

Width: 195

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Alexander Hay of Easter Kennet, Director of Chancery 1577, Clerk Register 1579, died 1594 (fol. 27r 'Pro magistro Alexandro Hay', 290v) (Possessor)
  • Thomas Newbie (fol. 28r) (Scribe)
  • George Dundas, advocate (pencil note on flyleaf, saec. XX or XIX) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XIX</p> <p> Watermark: thistle, crowned, with initials JR, AR = Jacobus rex, Anna regina (fol. 3, 29, 42, 280-282, 287 - paper produced in 1589, earliest).</p> <p> Foliation: modern foliation in pencil 1-290. 16th century references in the register fol. 1-27 prove that the volume had original foliation in ink, starting on what is now fol. 31. Numbers of the old foliation were probably cut off when the volume was rebound. Pagination saec. XVIII in ink 1-540, starting fol. 31r.</p> <p> The paper's colour is light brown. The ink is dark brown. Fire burnt holes into folios 188-193. This must have happened not long after these folios were written. Paper has carefully been glued across the holes, and the missing text was re-supplied in the same type of handwriting as before

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*