Statutes. Legislative acts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Acts of a legislature declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something, expressed according to the forms necessary to constitute law. For regulations having the force of law issued by a government agency in order to interpret or implement the provisions of a statute, use ""administrative regulations."".
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of manuscripts concerning orders of Collars and first statutes of the Ordre de Saint-Michel.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.843
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Original institutions of the princely orders of collars’ by Sir William Segar, [1603, or after] (Adv.MS.31.4.5), 25 frames;
Manuscript, 1469-1476, containing the first statutes of the Ordre de Saint-Michel drawn up in 1469, but not those of 1476. (Adv.MS.31.7.15), 26 frames.
Dates:
1469-1476, [1603, or after].
Minute books of the Perth Incorporation of Hammermen.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19239-19244
Scope and Contents
Formed to promote the interests of hammermen, the Incorporation's minute books contain statutes for the regulation of the crafts involved. These regulations are seen to be observed in the entries regarding the training of apprentices, admissions, and standards of goods produced. The majority of entries relate to financial matters such as fines for trading malpractices, and until the mid 16th century, to moral misdemeanours. Social functions of the Incorporation are shown in payments made to...
Dates:
1518-1893.
Minutes, letters, and accounts concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library regarding the proposal to build a new corridor.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/3
Dates:
1826-1831.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly concerning Scotland.
File
Identifier: MS.19991
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Part of a volume of annuals of Scotland covering in some detail the years 1602-1624, and more superficially, 1628-1633 (folio 1);
(ii) Transcripts of Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, 1618, 1621, 1644, 1648 (folio 22);
(iii) Royal precept appointing David Muirhead of Drumpark tutor to John son of David Muirhead merchant burgess of Dumfries, 1670 (folio 40);
(iv) Minutes of meetings of the heritors of Berwickshire concerning roads within the county,...
Dates:
1618-1771.
Regula of the Knights Templar, and works concerning ceremonial orders, heraldry and tournaments.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Statutes of the Order of the Garter in English (folio 1). The Statutes are those of Edward VI, 17 March 1552/1553, and are followed by a list of knights present at that Chapter. For other Statutes in English, see Adv.MS.31.7.18.(ii) `Regula pauperum commilitonum Christi templique salomonici` by Joannes Michaelensis, written in two hands of the 12th century (folio 18). The order of chapters differs from that given in...
Dates:
12th century-17th century.
Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI, by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
File
Identifier: MS.990
Scope and Contents
Contains three of the printed, interleaved copies which Lord Hailes issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks, with autograph notes by Lord Auchinleck, James Gordon, Advocate, and Hailes himself.
Dates:
[?1768.]
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.]
Transcripts, 17th century, of accounts of the Scottish Exchequer, 1561, and of acts and other related documents, 1362-1638.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.5
Dates:
1362-1638.
Volume containing a copy of the statutes of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a manuscript of an apparently unpublished early edition of the Edinburgh ‘Pharmacopoeia’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) A 17th-century copy of the statutes of 1647 of the Royal College of Physicians of London (folio 1).(ii) ‘Pharmacopoeia a Regio Medicorum Edinburgensium Collegio adornata. Edinburgi Typis Haeredis Andreae Anderson MDCLXXXV` (folio 27). This appears to be the manuscript of an early edition of the ‘Pharmacopoeia’ which was never published. The work was first proposed in 1683 but did not appear until 1699 (see ‘The Edinburgh...
Dates:
1647-late 17th century.
Volume entitled `Statuti della Mercanzia` (folio 1) containing a copy in a 17th-century hand of the statutes on trade enacted under Francesco de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, shortly after his accession in 1574.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.9
Scope and Contents
The text of the work, which is in three books, is preceded by an engraved title page (folio 1), lists of contents (folio 3) and an index of the most frequently occurring topics (folio 7), and is followed by additional statutes dated 1522-1523, 1526, 1528, 1613, and other material (folio 184).
Dates:
1522-1613.