Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]






Glasgow, Royal Faculty of Procurators, H18.2.1

Century: XVII (a.1664)

Number of folios: 140

Material: chart.

Height: 298

Width: 187

Region and Place of Production: Britannia

Scribe(s) / Possessor(s):

  • George Lawsone his not book, 1712 (last leaf) (Possessor)
  • David McAlly (saec. XVIII, last leaf) (Possessor)
  • Alexander Ogilvy Spence, at Leith 1844 (fol. 1v) (Possessor)
  • John Girvan (bookplate 1938) (Possessor)
  • John Thomsone (saec. XVIII, fol. 1r and last leaf) (Possessor)
  • James Monteith (1713, both sides of last leaf) (Possessor)
  • Thomas Kincaid (saec. XVIII, last leaf) (Possessor)
  • James Thomsone professor of divinity at Glasgow (saec. XVIII, penultimate leaf) (Possessor)
  • Moncriffe (saec. XVIII, last leaf) (Possessor)
  • Thomas Irving of Stanfield, writer (saec. XVIII, fol. 1r) (Possessor)
  • Thomas Simpson (saec. XVIII, fol. 1r) (Possessor)
  • Johnet Lawsone relict of Auldcathie (saec. XVIII, fol. 1r) (Possessor)
  • William Spence (saec. XVIII, last leaf and both sides of penultimate leaf) (Possessor)
  • John Spens Esq. of Bankhead, West Lothian, writer in Edinburgh (alleged, on fol. 1v) (Scribe)
  • John Gourlay (saec. XVIII, last leaf) (Possessor)

Cover: saec. XVII, in parchment glued on paper</p> <p> Watermark: hat (fol. 1-2 and throughout the volume, even in the last leaf = flyleaf).</p> <p> Foliation: the first three leaves are not numbered. On fol. 3v starts old pagination in ink 1-143, so that page 143 would be fol. 74v. There follows another series of old pagination in ink 1-60, and then a third such series 1-48, almost illegibly faded. Then six unnumbered leaves, and four unnumbered leaves which are written from the end of the volume towards the middle, and two damaged flyleaves.</p> <p> Fol. 1v: note about the handwriting. [{i}Text, saec. XIX: {/i}] This book was written by my Great-Great-Grandfather John Spens Esq. of Bankhead, West Lothian, and writer in Edinburgh. Alexander Ogilvy Spence. Leith 1844

Literature quoting this MS: Dolezalek, Scotland under Jus Commune, vols. 1 and 3

Analyzed by: Dolezalek*