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Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem and other legal texts; with three items formerly loosely inserted therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16497-16498
Dates:
[Circa 1500], mid 16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 books of 191 continuously numbered chapters (34, 74, 26, and 57 in each book respectively) with table at the beginning (folio 1). The end of chapter 6 to the beginning of chapter 14 is lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(ii) `Quoniam attachiamenta` in 61 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 60 verso). Chapters 11-24 are lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, mostly written by John Bannatyne in 1520, with some later additions.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in four books of 209 continuously numbered chapters (34, 72, 34, and 69 in each book), with table at the beginning (folio 2). This is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a couplet beginning `Me legat antiquas qui vult proferre loquelas` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xxvi) and 11 verses beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of...
Dates:
14th century-16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, mostly written by James Monynet in 1488, with some later additions.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of sections (iii) and (v)-(vii) (folio vi).(ii) ‘Brevis ordo judiciarius,` maxims and procedures in 12 chapters, in a later hand (folio x verso).(iii) `Regiam Maiestatem,` in four books of respectively 35, 74, 35, and 68 chapters (folio 1). In addition to this numbering (in red) there is a continuous numbering of the chapters to ccxi. Prefixed are 11 lines beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua...
Dates:
1248-15th century.
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Item
Identifier: MS.21246
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by two hands in the second half of the fourteenth century, with one slighly later addition (section (i)) and fifteenth-century additions (sections (ii), (x) etc.). In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the volume had East Fife connections.The contents are as follows.
(i) Styles of writs, brieves, etc., in 107 chapters. The majority belong to the reign of Robert II. (Folio 2.)
(ii) An alphabetical index to the volume, 15th century. (Folio 17...
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.902
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Microfilm of the Regiam Maiestatem, [circa 1500], mid 16th century; and, Book of Hours, fifteenth- to sixteenth-century, according to the use of Sarum.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.512
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, [circa 1500], mid 16th century, of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie (MS.16497);
Book of Hours, fifteenth-sixteenth century, according to the use of Sarum, in Latin; written and illuminated in the Netherlands (MS.16499).
Dates:
15th century-16th century.