Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.25.4.12

Century: XVI.1

Number of folios: 319

Material: chart.

Height: 265

Width: 198

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Previous shelf mark(s): Jac.V. 6.13

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Lanzenstoun (fol. 301v, saec. XVI) (Possessor)
  • William Andersoun (flyleaf ii recto, saec. XVI) (Possessor)
  • William Bannatyne (flyleaf i recto, saec. XVI) (Possessor)
  • Thomas Bannatyne (fol. 301v, saec. XVI) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XIX, leather on cardboard</p> <p> Watermark: jug, simple, with letters PO, on the lid five spikes, bearing two, one, three, one, two balls, above the middle spike's balls a short stem and a small four-petaled blossom (flyleaf ii, fol. 302, 304, 313, 315); gothic letter p with split foot, above it a stem with a four-petaled blossom, the mark is 59 mm high (fol. 2-5, 11, 27, 39, 51, 64, 84, 92 [good], 102, 116, 128, 152, 167 [good], 195, 205, 213 [good], 224, 231, 237, 239); fleur-de-lis in crowned shield, with a blossom on top, and standing on a sort of foot (fol. 112); jug without letters, small, slender, lid's upper rim shaped as a crown, above the middle a stem and a four-petaled blossom, altogether 55 mm high (fol. 244, 257, 264 [good], 266, 269 [good], to 284); gothic letter p, small, with split foot, altogether 44 mm high, no blossom on top (fol. 287, 295-296, 298-300)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*