Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, UL, Dc.6.20


Century: XVII (a.1677)

Number of folios: 89

Material: chart.

Height: 186

Width: 151

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • John Sutherland, a.1677 (Scribe)
  • Alexander Innes, a.1761 (on title page) (Possessor)
  • Robert Alexander [mentioned as pursuer in a summons] (pag. 99) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XVIII, leather on cardboard. Formerly embossed on spine, weak remains can still be seen: RYMPL FORMS OF ACTIONS MSS. Gold-embossed year date on spine: 1666</p> <p> Watermark: fool (title page, pag. 5, 7, still in pag. 53, 67, 73), countermark a rectangle with letters HOD (pag. 3, 51); different fool (second series of pagination, pag. 1, 5, 9, 13, still in pag. 75 and in the blank leaves thereafter), countermark a rectangle with letters IOANNE (second series, pag. 37, and in blank leaves six leaves after pag. 80)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*