Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, UL, Laing III.427

Century: XVII medies

Number of folios: 337

Material: chart.

Height: 317

Width: 203

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • David Laing, saec. XIX.2 (Possessor)
  • John Sharp clerk to Niel Ferguson, Esq., advocate in Edinburgh, saec. XVIII (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XVIII, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: arms of Amsterdam (pag. 191-198 and second series of pagination, pag. 79), with countermark large letters I 4 R, written in a right angle to the main watermark (pag. 177 third series - as in MS Laing III.420); arms of Amsterdam, the mantling differs from the mark mentioned above (found e.g. in pag. 181 of third series of pagination).</p> <p> [{i}Sheet bound before the first series of pages:{/i}] The index of the titles contained in the following alphabeticall compend and abridgement of Duries Practiques [{i}there follows an alphabetical list of titles{/i}]

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*