Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






London, BL, Addit. 33531


Century: XVI.2-XVII

Number of folios: 298

Material: chart.

Height: 390

Width: 315

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • John Hope 7th Earl of Hopetoun (Possessor)
  • Sotheby's auctioneers, London (auction a.1889) (Possessor)

Cover: not analysed</p> <p> Watermark: helmet (fol. 33).</p> <p> This is a miscellaneous volume with a vast number of items (almost all of them letters) of which I can only describe a few samples. Several items contain encrypted writing, in part with decoded transcription written above or beneath - e.g. fol.79r-80v, 73r-74v, 99r-100v. The encryption is an easy one, it encodes letter by letter

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*