Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, UL, Laing III.412

Century: XVII (a.1644)

Number of folios: i +245

Material: chart.

Height: 285

Width: 190

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Areturus Gordonius a.1659, 1673 (fol. 244v, 245v) (Possessor)
  • David Laing, saec. XIX.2 (Possessor)
  • John Urquhart at Strathloch, 1644/11/8 (fol. 242r) (Scribe)

Cover: contemporary.</p> <p> (Fol. i:) Frontispiece, beautifully designed, showing Lady Justice, not blindfolded, with naked left breast, holding in her left arm a pair of scales and in her right arm a sword, sitting on a large round stone with inscription 'Practiques collected be Balfour Advocat. Copied out be Ihon Wrquhart, 1644.'

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*