| LOCATION | Edinburgh, NL Scotland |
| MANUSCRIPT | Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.4.1 |
Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.4.1
Century: XVII.2
Number of folios: i. +332
Material: chart.
Height: 313
Width: 205
Region and Place of Production: Britannia
Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):
Cover: saec. XVIII leather on cardboard. The first folios are heavily damaged by moisture. No more damages after folio 70</p> <p> Watermark: arms of Amsterdam (fol. 64, 152, 158 - similar to MS Edinburgh UL Dc.4.71), countermark broad letter M (fol. 10); fool's cap, very large, weak (fol. 180, 212 [good], 231, 271, 287, 327-332).</p> <p> Foliation: old foliation in ink.</p> <p> Flyleaf verso: Table of contents.</p> <p> The contents of the following booke are:</p> <p> Inprimis some essayes and observes of the Roman and Scotts laws compared together, in 14 chapters, folio 1.</p> <p> Item some remarks anent marittime affairs and some processes of capers before the Admirall or Lords of Session for judgeing or reclameing prize ships, a folio 11 to folio 15.</p> <p> Item some decisions of the Lords of Sessione from June 1647 till December 1649, folio 15 to 19.</p> <p> Item some decisions of the English judges during the usurpatione from 1654 till his maiesties restauratione and the sitting doun of the Session again in June 1661, from folio 19 to 50.</p> <p> Item a collection of sundrie remarkeable decisions of the Lords of Session from June 1661 till June 1678, being the space of 17 years, quhairin are mingled many other passages and transactions and some observable actings att Secret Councell and sundrie law questions and doubts. This takes up from folio 50 to the 322 leiff.</p> <p> Wheir follows the accompt of the convention of the Estates in June 1678 with the remarkable occurrents that happened theirin
Literature quoting this MS: Dolezalek, Scotland under Jus Commune, vols. 1 and 2
Analyzed by: Dolezalek*