| LOCATION | Glasgow, UL |
| MANUSCRIPT | Glasgow, UL, Murray 548 |
Glasgow, UL, Murray 548
Century: XVI.2 (a.1567 earliest)
Number of folios: 317
Material: chart.
Height: 370
Width: 270
Region and Place of Production: Britannia
Previous shelf mark(s): Mu 57 - a.15
Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):
Cover: saec. XVIII, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: jug, simple, without letters, flat lid, on its left rim and right rim an upward spike, in the middle of the upper rim stands a fleur-de-lis, above it a small four-petaled blossom and yet another blossom, altogether 53 mm high (fol.2, 4, 22, 56, 76, 101, 131, 144 good, 226, 245, 261, 285, 314 ); Maltese cross, standing on an oval shape whose upper rim consists of a chain of circles, and lower rim of two parallely curved lines. From them hangs a loop, it likens a fleur-de-lis, beneath it a four-petaled blossom. In lower half of the oval one large ornament and four small ones, all likening fleurs-de-lis (flyleaf at end = fol. 317).</p> <p> Handwriting: the entire volume is written by only one scribe, on one type of paper. This is a luxury volume. Very neat handwriting on generously spaced lines, on thick paper. Wide margins, and blank leaves are inserted between individual items in the volume. The title on fol. 306r mentions a 'king', thus written after the abdication of Queen Mary. C opied from a model MS penned in 1546 by Henricus de Aytonia [see fol. 278r]. MS London, BL, Addit. 48032, was copied from the same ancestor MS
Literature quoting this MS: Dolezalek, Scotland under Jus Commune, vols. 1 and 3
Analyzed by: Dolezalek*