Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.4.8


Century: XVII medies

Number of folios: 466

Material: chart.

Height: 293

Width: 185

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Robert Gavin, saec. XVII (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XVII, leather beautifully embossed with leafwork ornaments and letters M and beneath R and I, glued on cardboard. Remnants of clasps</p> <p> Watermark: fool (flyleaves in front and at end); jug, large, with letters P and beneath OO, on base a fleur-de-lis, handle's lines not parallel, on the lid five almost round skittles, each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a fleur-de-lis (fol. 119, 125, 159, 162); two pillars, each bearing a fleur-de-lis, between them letters CBA, above the middle a large bunch of grapes and a fleur-de-lis (fol. 2, 18, 38, 82, 224); hat (fol. 283, 288); bugle horn in a shield (fol. 426, 445, 451); fleur-de-lis with three ribbons (Strasbourg) in crowned shield (fol. 226, 396, 431, 458, 466)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*