Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.6.13

Century: XVII (a.1645)

Number of folios: 224

Material: chart.

Height: 292

Width: 190

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • James Gordon, a.1652 (Possessor)
  • John Urquhart, at Strathloch a.1645 (fol. 224r) (Scribe)

Cover: saec. XVII or XVIII, leather decorated with stamp marks, on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: jug, large, with letters I and beneath DI, on base a fleur-de-lis, on the lid five almost round skittles each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a lying half moon (fol. 5, 8 [good], 35, 99, 105, 130, 150, 164, 181, 198, 214 ); jug with letters O and beneath RO, on the lid five skittles on whose top there alternate three balls and one ball, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a lying half moon (fol.39, 42 good); jug with letters R(?) O, on the lid five long skittles, each bearing one ball, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a lying half moon whose tips embrace a circle (fol. 91, 95)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*