Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.6.3b


Century: XVI ex. usque XVII in. (partly written in 1621)

Number of folios: xiv +190

Material: chart.

Height: 302

Width: 203

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Previous shelf mark(s): W.4.3

Cover: contemporary, in vellum, with initials CK. Possessor's name illegibly cancelled (fol. i)</p> <p> Watermark: jug with letters P and beneath LM, on the lid five skittles, above the middle skittle a four-petaled blossom, and then a lying half moon (fol. 114, 118, 149 and at the end of the volume fol. vii); jug with letters I and beneath P I, a trefoil above the lid and then a lying half moon (fol. 67, 69); different jug with letters N and beneath ZG, with five skittles on the lid and above them a lying half moon (fol. 182, 185); jug with letters, several other types (such types of jugs were common e.g. in French paper mills shortly before 1600 and in the first decennia after 1600)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*