Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Glasgow, UL, Murray 519

Century: XVII medies

Number of folios: 303

Material: chart.

Height: 304

Width: 200

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Previous shelf mark(s): Mu 57 - b.4

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • John Cochrane (saec. XVIII, name cancelled) (Possessor)
  • David Murray (died a.1928) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XVIII, leather on cardboard. On spine residues of gold-embossed letters: BALMAN. AND SPOTS. PRACT</p> <p> Watermark: fool, maybe several different types (pag. 3-11, 37, 69, 147, 211, 263, 315, 337, 341, 361, 395), countermark hardly visible (pag. 339); different fool, now with a chain of bells towards the side (second series of pagination: blank sheet before it and pag. 3, 9, 25, 87, 115, 159, 169, 187 - thereafter one more blank sheet); lion rampant whose paw emits flashes of lightning , in a crowned double circle (pag. 195, 201, 203, 207), with countermark broad letters PC (pag. 209).</p> <p> (Flyleaf, in handwriting saec. XIX:) Decisions of the Court of Session, by Sir George Auchinleck of Balmano ... and Sir Robert Spottswood of Newabbay

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*