Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, UL, Laing III.399

Century: XVII.2

Number of folios: 259

Material: chart.

Height: 295

Width: 190

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Charles Areskine of Alva Esq., Lord Justice Clerk (book plate, with pressmark from his library: g.2.27) (Possessor)
  • Thomas Hope (flyleaf, several times) (Possessor)
  • Andrew Lauder (penultimate leaf) (Possessor)
  • John Lauder Lord Fountainhall (flyleaf and inside of old back cover) (Possessor)
  • Richard Maitland Catbardich, writer (penultimate leaf and last page) [not in the register of the Society of Writers] (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XX, linen glued on cardboard. On spine: LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL COLLECTIONS</p> <p> Watermark: jug with letters Q(?) and beneath RO, on the lid's right side an ornament likening the first two leaves of a sprouting plant, on the left the same ornament, on lid's middle three small skittles, each bearing one ball, above the middle a small four-petaled blossom and a lying half moon (pag. 1, second series pag. 1, 38 [good], 184, third series pag. 113, fourth series, still observed in the blank leaves at end)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*