Manuscripta juridica

Edinburgh, UL, Laing III.395

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Century: XVII (a.1622)

Number of folios: 34 +302 +7

Material: chart.

Height: quarto

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

• David Laing, saec. XIX (Possessor)
• Habakkuk Bisset, a.1622 (Scribe)
• George Chalmers Esq. (bookplate) (Possessor)

Cover: contemporary, in beautifully embossed leather on cardboard, with remnants of clasps</p> <p> Watermark: boar, just a primitive frame (pencil numbering fol. 22, ink numbering fol. 216, 221, 282, end-of-volume pencil numbering fol. 5).</p> <p> Foliation: modern foliation in pencil 1-34 (intermittent), thereafter old foliation in ink 1-302, and again modern foliation in pencil 1-7

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*

 

• Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae "Rolment of courtis" [Habakkuk Bisset]
• Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae - Treatise 'In all actiounis and pleyes thrie persounis are necessar' ("Form of process")
• Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae - details [Habakkuk Bisset] :falsing of domes, etc., appendix to book 1 of 'Rolment of courtis'
• Ordo iudiciarius Scotiae [Habakkuk Bisset] :book 2 of 'Rolment of courtis'
• Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae - Treatise In the first, quhair the lybellat sumondis are requirit'
• Ius proprium Scotiae - details on Church [Habakkuk Bisset] :religious houses in Scotland, and lives of kings and princes who founded them - book 3 of 'Rolment of courtis'
• Ordo iudiciorum curiae Admiralatus Scotiae [Habakkuk Bisset] :book 4 of 'Rolment of courtis'
• xBurghs of Scotland and their privileges :Rolment of courtis by Habakkuk Bisset, book 5
• Ius proprium Scotiae - Practicks (general digest of law, systematic) [James Balfour of Pittendreich]
• Chronologia [Habakkuk Bisset] :popes, emperors, kings of Scotland
• xCalendar :days on which noteworthy Scottish bishops, abbots, priors departed this temporal life
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