Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






London, BL, Addit. 27472

Century: XVI (a.1566)

Number of folios: 210

Material: chart.

Height: 194

Width: 145

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Mansf.t de Cardonnel Lanson (bookplate saec. XVIII) (Possessor)
  • David Chalmers of Ormand(?) (Scribe)
  • David Gordoune (fol. 207r, he penned an addition) (Scribe)

Cover: saec. XVI.2, leather on cardboard, with embossed dedication in gold letters. (On back:) TO REGENT, OUR SOVRAN. (On front:) ERLE IAMES OF MURRAY. Kept in a modern book case, made of cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: gauntlet, large, decorated, above the middle finger a blossom with five pronged petals, almost without a stem (fingers fol. 14b, 37, 78-79, 136, 193 [good], 195, 198, end of gauntlet fol. 40, 44, 77, 135, 192 [good], 197 [good], 201-202, 205)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*