Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.25.5.11

Century: XVI (a.1528 - fol. 85v)

Number of folios: 127

Material: chart.

Height: 268

Width: 177

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Previous shelf mark(s): A.7.27

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • George Cuyk (fol. 85v, 89r) (Scribe)
  • James Foulis a.1587 (fol. 127r, ornamented on fol. 64v). Ex libris magistri Jacobi Foulis, manu propria (saec. XVI, fol. 125v, 1r-v) (Possessor)
  • Guilielmus Lepus est mihi nomen cognomenque, a.1587 (fol. 127r) (Possessor)
  • Jacobus Grey notarius in Glasgow (fol. 125r, saec. XVI) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XIX (flyleaf has dated watermark '1838'), leather on cardboard. On spine: LEGES SCOTORUM ANTIQUAE</p> <p> Watermark: gothic letter p, very long, in vertical watermark, its foot is split, above it a small stem and a four-petaled blossom, overall identical or very similar to the mark in fol. 25 ss. (fol. 3-7, 9 [good], 11-12 [good], 17-18); plant with leaves, and above three stems carrying blossoms with five pronged petals (fol. 40, 43-44, 49, 53); gothic letter p, very long, in a vertical watermark, its foot is split, on top there is a small stem carrying a four-petaled blossom (fol. 25-27, 32-34, 38, 59 [good], 66-70); unicorn, very elegantly designed, in vertical position, on its breast a blossom with four pronged petals (fol. 21-22, 84-85 - etc.); watermarks fol. 86-127 were not controlled.</p> <p> Fol. 1v: Note in Greek letters, dated 1656, in part wanting because of loss of paper: '... 'ton biblon ton fan lision''

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*