Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.25.5.5

Century: XVII.1

Number of folios: 388 and 395

Material: chart.

Height: 287

Width: 197

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Previous shelf mark(s): M.6.20 and M.6.19

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Sir Thomas Hope of Kerse, saec. XVII.1 (vol. 1, flyleaf iii) (Possessor)

Cover: contemporary, parchment on cardboard. On spine of first volume, in ink, faded: 'Commentarii in libros 22, 23, 24 et ... ... ff' [{i}= abbreviation for 'Digestorum'{/i}]</p> <p> Watermark: three fleurs-de-lis in crowned shield, namely one fleur-de-lis below and two above (vol. 1, fol. 47, 106, 116, 177, 199, 221, 266, 287, 299, 303, vol. 2 fol. 2-3, 5, 20, 57, 98, 123, 172 [good],206, 223, 311-314, 317, 320, 343, 362b-362c, 375, 386, 392 [good]); fleur-de-lis in an ornamental renaissance shield with curved pointed corners (vol. 1, fol. 53, 384, 381-385 [all these leaves are blank], but also in written sheets fol. 250-251, 255, 257-258, 305 ss., last in fol. 375, and vol. 2, fol. 229-235, 238, 246, 256, 268, 291, 299); arms of Basel (vol. 1, flyleaves fol. 386-388, vol. 2, flyleaf 391); crosier = arms of Basel(?) in crowned shield, letters HM underneath (vol. 2, flyleaf iii); eagle with spread wings (vol. 2, flyleaf ii)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*