Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.7.1.10

Century: XVII (a.1601)

Number of folios: 261

Material: chart.

Height: 333

Width: 217

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Previous shelf mark(s): A.3.16

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Sir John Skene of Curriehill (Possessor)
  • Walter Pringle advocatus (later Lord Newhall), Bibliothecae Facultatis Juridicae Curator, dictae Bibliothecae donat (flyleaf, a.1703) (Possessor)
  • Carolus Lummisden 1601/5 - 1602/2 (in many places, e.g. fol. 7r, 26v, etc.), minister evangelii Jesu Christi apud Dudingstoniam [{i}minuscule letters fol. 257r, one millimeter high{/i}] (Scribe)

Cover: saec. XIX, leather on cardboard, spine renewed saec. XX. On spine 'Leges Scotorum Antiquae'</p> <p> Watermark: letter N, broad, in crowned shield, large, above the crown's middle a stem holding a small four-petaled blossom, beneath the shield a rectangle with letters probably JEAN NETTE, decorated by four curved lines, spiralling at their ends (flyleaf, fol. 27, 48, 64, 66, 89, 130, 133, 155-156, 258, 260) - obviously the same mark as in MS Edinburgh, UL, Dc.3.48, and that MS also shows similar character of handwriting

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*