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'Decisions of ye Court of Session by Lord Abes[]hill, wrote by himself'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.7.17
Dates:
?Late 17th century.
Durie`s `Decisions`, in two series: 11 July 1621-30 January 1630; 2 February 1630-20 July 1633.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is of part of Durie`s ‘Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session’ and pre-dates the printed edition of 1690.
One folio has been lost after folio 1, and five after folio 8.
Dates:
Before 1690.
Extracts, 18th century, of criminal decisions, 1661-1674, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.5.5-24.5.6
Dates:
1661-1674.
Extracts, 18th century, of criminal decisions, 1716-1740, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.7
Dates:
6 February-1716-10 March 1740.
‘Grant manuscript.’
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Dates:
1494-1593, 17th century.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Item
Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates:
1682-1683.
`Major Practicks` of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.2
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Manuscript, 18th century, of Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno’s Practicks, ?1626-?1639, entitled `Auchinleck, Ld. Balmanno’s Practicks’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.5.1
Scope and Contents
Auchinleck was admitted an Ordinary Lord in 1626, and retained the position until his death in 1639. His practicks, arranged alphabetically, are unpublished.
Dates:
?1626-?1639.
Manuscript, ?1645-?1652, of Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno’s Practicks, ?1626-?1639, entitled `Practickes and Decisions of the Lords of Sessione Observed and Collected be Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno, Knight, One of the ordinarie Lords of the Colledge of Justice`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.13
Scope and Contents
On folio 224 is written: `Jo: Wr[quhart] scripsit Apud Strathloch 8. octob. anno 1645`; and on folio 2: `Ex Libris Jacobi Gordon P.R. Anno 1652 Novris 13. J.B.R. D.D.` (James Gordon, Minister of Rothiemay, was a son of Robert Gordon of Straloch, the Geographer.)
Auchinleck was admitted an Ordinary Lord in 1626, and retained the position until his death in 1639. His practicks, arranged alphabetically, are unpublished.
Dates:
?1626-?1639.
Manuscript, mid 17th century, of Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno’s Practicks, ?1626-?1639, entitled `Pratiques and Decisions of the Lords of Sessione observed and collected be Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno, Knight, One of the Ordinarie Lords of the Colledge of Justice.`
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.7
Scope and Contents
On folio ii, an illustrated title-page, is written: `wreittin Be Ihon wrchait. 1644`; the date `7 October 1645` appears on folio 1; and, on folio 236, `Jo: Urquhart scripsit Apud Strathloch Vigesimo octavo Mar: 1646`. On the fly-leaf is written: `Arthurus Gordonius anno M.D.C.L.VI sexto Iduum decembris fato prudentia major Edinburgi` (Arthur Gordon, Advocate, was a son of Robert Gordon of Straloch, the Geographer).Auchinleck was admitted an Ordinary Lord in 1626, and retained the...
Dates:
?1626-?1639.
Manuscript of 3 legal works, written in a late 17th-century hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows: (i) `Extract of the practiques of the Commissioners for valuatione of teinds and plantation of Kirks`, 1629-1643. Those from 1631 to 1643 are also in Adv.MSS.31.2.11, page 126, and 33.2.40, last item. (Page 1.)(ii) `Admiralitie. The fforme and manner of holding of courts of Admiraltie and proces led before them`. This text appears elsewhere (Adv.MS.28.4.7; and, in an abbreviated form, MS.1948) as an appendix to...
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript of ‘Decisions of the Court of Session MDCCLXXXI-MDCCCXXII, in the Form of a Dictionary’, collected by David Hume when he was Professor of Scots Law at Edinburgh, arranged and prepared for publication when he was Baron of the Exchequer, and finally published posthumously in 1839.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.7.1-81.7.19
Scope and Contents
The only difference from the published work is that the cases are not numbered continuously, but internally within each heading, and that there are no indexes (except for a fragment, Adv.MS.81.7.19, folio 207).
In the individual descriptions, the numbers of the cases (as in the published work), the headings, and the pages of the published work are given in that order.
Dates:
1781-1822.
Manuscripts of early laws, statutes, and practicks, written from the 15th to the early 17th centuries, and combined probably in the early 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of Acts of Parliament of circa 1606-1609 and from the reign of James I to that of James VI and I, early 17th century (folio 1 verso).(ii) A collection of laws in six books, taking its material from the ‘Regiam Maiestatem, the ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, the early statutes, the burgh and forest laws, etc., 15th-16th century (folio 10). An index is bound in at folio 102.(iii) `Assise et statuta Regis David...
Dates:
15th century-early 17th century.
Miscellaneous papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Translation, 17th century, of Jan de Laet`s edition of ‘Lexicon Vitruvianum’. The beginning is missing; the text starts at `Abstantia` and breaks off at `Mataxa`. (Folio 1.)(ii) Article attacking the service-book, circa 1638. (Folio 51.)(iii) Manuscript, 1709, of ‘A Letter directed thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwal’ by James Sands. (Folio 72.)(iv) Copy, late 17th century, of George Buchanan`s...
Dates:
?1595-18th century.
’Practiques observed befor the Lords of Session from 1626 till 1638. Collected Alphabetically By S[ir] G[eorge] Au[chinleck, Lord Balmanno] With ane perfect index wher in what page each practique is to be found. Written in anno 1661 By A.G.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.19
Scope and Contents
The writer was possibly Archibald Gibson, admitted Writer to the Signet in 1661. For this work and the manuscripts of it see the catalogue entry for Adv.MS.6.1.7.
Dates:
1626-1638.
Volume of practicks.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.8
Scope and Contents
(i) `Practiques Observed By the Judicatories of the Kingdome of Scotland, According to the Municipal Lawes Sett ffurth By Sir Thomas Hope of Carse, Knight Advocat for his Majesty. Written by Charles Tais yor Writter in Perth. 20 December 1701`, i.e. ‘Minor Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall. In the title ‘Carse` is scored through and ‘Craig Hall’ added in pencil. The confusion of father and son appears also in MS.5898(vii) (a volume which was compiled in 1682-1683 by James Blair of...
Dates:
1626-1639, 1701.