Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Accession 9281

Century: XVII.2

Number of folios: 150

Material: chart.

Height: 300

Width: 193

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Plummer of Middlestead, Sunderland Hall, saec. XIX (bookplate) (Possessor)
  • William Scott of Wooll, a.1799 (flyleaf) (Possessor)
  • William Karr of Sunderland Hall at Kelso, a.1664-1666 (Scribe)

Cover: saec. XIX.1, cardboard with leather spine</p> <p> Watermark: jug, large, with letters I and beneath IR, on base a trefoil, on collar a fleur-de-lis, handle's lines parallel, along lid's upper rim a densely zigzagged or spiralled wire, on the lid five almost round skittles, each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a fleur-de-lis (first folios, 74 good); jug, large, with letters I and beneath DV (further folios of first series, e.g. fol. 88 good, almost identical to jug mentioned above); jug with letters P and beneath BV, the V leaning to the left, on the lid five long skittles, each bearing one ball, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a fleur-de-lis (in the Order of procedure, e.g. fol.1)

Literature quoting this MS: Dolezalek, Scotland under Jus Commune, vols. 1 and 2

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*