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14th-century manuscript produced in England containing English law statutes and writs.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.1
Scope and Contents
14th-century manuscript produced in England containing English law statutes and writs. The Summary Catalogue of the National Library of Scotland dates the manuscript to the 14th century. Dolezalek suggests that the manuscript may be of the beginning of the 15th century. The manuscript is written in a single column in an Anglicana chancery hand. The volume is incomplete and is wanting folios at the beginning and end. On the turn-in of the front board are 18th-century ownership...
Dates:
14th century.
Early 15th-century manuscript containing copies of English law statutes, including the 'Magna Carta' and the 'Statuta Lincolni'; 'Prerogativa regis'; 'Consuetudines Londoni'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.28.7.5
Scope and Contents
Early 15th-century manuscript produced in England, containing a collection of English law statutes. The work is written by a number of contemporary hands in a bastarda script, normally with 23 lines to a page.The contents are as follows:Paper and vellum flyleaves with ownership and shelfmark inscriptions. Folios i-iv.Table of contents, in a 15th-century hand. Folio 1rv.Later insertions of various statutes, in a 15th-century hand. Folios...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland in the early 17th century, before 1637, for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington. The volume consists of copies and extracts of various historical and legal works.The full contents are listed below, primarily taken from Dolezalek's census and the 'Historical Catalogue' record. Any gaps in the foliation refer to blank sheets or sheets used for titles and headings.Extracts of the rental book of the Abbey of Dunfermline. This is printed...
Dates:
Early 17th century, before 1637.
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.902
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’.
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Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.1.1-37.1.4
Dates:
[Circa 1626.]