Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.25.5.8

Century: XVII in.

Number of folios: 249

Material: chart.

Height: 280

Width: 180

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Previous shelf mark(s): A.2.20

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • Thomas Skene (donated the book in 1683) (Possessor)
  • Robert Somervell 'with my hand' (fol. 156v, saec. XVII) (Possessor)
  • Charles Lumsden minister apud Duddingstoniam(?) (Scribe)
  • Sir John Skene of Curriehill (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XIX, leather on cardboard. On spine 'Leges Scotorum Antiquae'</p> <p> Watermark: jug with two handles, small, on the belly probably only ornaments, in lieu of a lid a pyramid of three, two, one small lying half moons and above another small lying half moon, altogether 54 mm high (fol. 3, 5, 9, 98, 120, 190-191, 217, 219, 242-243, 247)

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

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*