Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.6.1.7

Century: XVII (a.1644 - 1646)

Number of folios: 236

Material: chart.

Height: 300

Width: 188

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Arthurus Gordonius, Edinburgh, a.1656 [also several other preserved juridical MSS were owned by him] (Possessor)
  • Johannes Urquhart scripsit apud Strathloch, a.1646/3/28 (Scribe)
  • Edinburgh, bought for the Faculty of Advocates in 1881 (Possessor)

Cover: contemporary, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: jug with letters I and beneath D L, narrow base with fleur-de-lis, handle at right side, on the lid five skittles, each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a lying half moon (flyleaf in front, fol. 3, 10, 16 [good], 25, 37 [good]); two pillars, between them letters G O, above the middle a large bunch of grapes (fol. 6b); jug with letters I and beneath undiscernable letters or simply decoration, on base letters GMG(?), on the lid five skittles, each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a large lying half moon (fol. 77); jug, large, with letters I and beneath L T, on the large base a fleur-de-lis, on the lid five skittles, each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a large lying half moon (fol. 70, 75 [good], 80); jug, large, with letters P and beneath OR, on the lid five skittles, each bearing three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a lying half moon (fol. 98, 136, 171, 192, 203, 205 [good]); jug, large, with letters M and beneath L L, on the lid five skittles bearing three, one, three, one, three balls, above the middle a four-petaled blossom and a lying half moon (fol. 228, 232 [good] - 235)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*