Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






London, BL, Harley 4700


Century: XV ex. et XVI.2

Number of folios: 310

Material: chart.

Height: 276

Width: 210

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Previous shelf mark(s): 134.B.16

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Thomas Henryson, a.1590 (fol. 4r, 17r, 68r, 309v) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XIX.2, imitation of leather glued on cardboard, with leather corners and leather spine</p> <p> Watermark: jug with letters maybe AH, on the lid five spikes, bearing two, one, three, one, two balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom, altogether 60 mm high (fol. 1, 3); jug with simple base, on the belly just a belt, no letters, in lieu of a lid a simple crown, in whose middle stands a cross whose arms liken blossom's petals, and above it a four-petaled blossom (situated in the centre fold, fol. 5, 8, 9, 16, 18, 19, 21, 62, 67, 93-94, 121-122, 143-144, 154, 156, 184-185, 207, 210, 228, 243, 264, 300-302, 307)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*