Laws. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents stating rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority and having binding legal force.
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
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 14th century manuscript, 'Consuetudines Normanniae', the laws and customs of Normandy.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.937
Dates:
14th century.
Microfilm of 15th-century manuscript containing various legal works: an index to the works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato; the 'Allegationes' of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder, abbreviated by Anthonius de Butrio; the 'Canonum Collectio' of Pseudo-Isidore.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.181
Dates:
15th century, after 1440.
Microfilm of 15th century manuscript of Icelandic laws, 'Jónsbók'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.774
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of 'Canonum Collectio' of Pseudo-Isidore, from a 15th-century manuscript containing various legal works.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.223
Dates:
15th century, after 1440.
Microfilm of early 14th century manuscripts containing works of Justinian.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.176
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Early 14th-century manuscript, 1330-1335, containing the 'Volumen' and 'Liber Feudorum' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius, and some miniatures of Andrea da Bologna (Adv.MS.10.1.4 (i));
Early 14th-century manuscript, 1310-1320 containing Books 39-50 of the 'Digesta' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius (Adv.MS.10.1.4 (ii)).
Dates:
1310-1335.
Microfilm of early fourteenth-century manuscript containing the 'Volumen' and 'Liber Feudorum' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius, and some miniatures of Andrea da Bologna.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1040
Dates:
1330-1335.
Microfilm of manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1092
Dates:
3rd quarter of 15th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1109
Dates:
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 "Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.232
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.) (ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a copy'...
Dates:
1764-1779.
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.
Minute books and other records of the United Incorporation of Mary`s Chapel, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.302
Dates:
1755-1949.
Notes of the lectures on Scots law delivered by David Hume, Professor of Scots law at Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.6.10(i)-(iv)
Scope and Contents
Apparently intended by the annotator as transcripts for publication.
Dates:
1822.
Notes on the criminal law of Scotland in the handwriting of Professor Hume (Baron Hume).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.16
Dates:
1829.
"Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.
File
Identifier: MS.3114
Scope and Contents
Album containing.(i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.)(ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a...
Dates:
1764-1779.
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.1.1-37.1.4
Dates:
[Circa 1626.]
Treatise on land-holding and transfer.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.2
Scope and Contents
Contains English laws and illustrative instances especially in reference to land.
Dates:
Early 18th century.