Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, UL, 208

Century: XVI (a.1575 latest)

Number of folios: 335

Material: chart.

Height: 284

Width: 205

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Previous shelf mark(s): Laing III.380

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Thomas Scot est meus herus (fol. 87v). This buk pertinis to Thome Scot ... vitht my awin hand (fol. 89r) (Possessor)
  • David Scott of the Spencerfold, a. 1575 (fol. 87v), son to Jhon Scot of the Spenserfeld, writyn witht my awin hawnd and gyffin it to my son Thom. Scot, ... Dawe Scott witht my hand (fol. 175r) (Scribe)
  • Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck, a.1817 (Possessor)
  • J. A. Maconochie (saec. XIX, asserted in APS I, red page nr. 177 ss., xxvi nr. 17) (Possessor)
  • Liber honorabilis viri: Jacobus Fletchir (fol. 251r, 335) (Possessor)
  • David Laing, saec. XIX.2 (Possessor)
  • Alexander Colville commendator of Culros, senator of the College of Justice saec. XVI.2 (parchment flyleaf) (Possessor)
  • wryttin to David Gybsoune ... (fol. 129r) (Possessor)
  • Heriodt (fol. 251r) (Possessor)
  • Magister Robertus Dawing est huius libri possessor (fol. 335, saec. XVI) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XIX, beautifully embossed leather on probably old wood from previous binding. Spine restored saec. XX</p> <p> Watermark: unicorn, the hooves are split and broad like a reindeer's (fol. 12 good, 46 good, 116, 117); heart with a simple cross on top, altogether 25 mm high (fol. 118, 123); gothic letter p, large, with split foot, no blossom on top (fol. 131, 136, 139, 141, 146, 149, 157, 160, 164, 168, 172, 174, 218, 222, 197, 256, 265, 287, 308, 328, 335); Jesus monogram J H S in a circle (on a blank sheet inserted by a bookbinder saec. XVIII, fol. 318)

Literature quoting this MS: Dolezalek, Scotland under Jus Commune, vols. 1 and 3

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*