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Regiam Majestatem Scotiae veteres leges et constitutiones : ex archivis publicis, et antiquis libris manuscriptis collectae, recognitae, et notis juris civilis, canonici, Nortmannici auctoritate confirmatis, illustratae, operâ & studio Joannis Skenaei, Regiae Majestati à conciliis & archivis publicis. Annotantur in margine, concordantiae Juris Divini, legum Angliae, et juris novissimi Scotiae quod acta Parliamenti, vulgò, vocant catalogum eorum quae in his libris continentur vicesima pagina, indicat. Cum duplici indice, altero rerum, altero verborum locupletissimo.

Scotland.; Skene, John, Sir, 1543?-1617.; Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
1609
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Title
Regiam Majestatem Scotiae veteres leges et constitutiones : ex archivis publicis, et antiquis libris manuscriptis collectae, recognitae, et notis juris civilis, canonici, Nortmannici auctoritate confirmatis, illustratae, operâ & studio Joannis Skenaei, Regiae Majestati à conciliis & archivis publicis. Annotantur in margine, concordantiae Juris Divini, legum Angliae, et juris novissimi Scotiae quod acta Parliamenti, vulgò, vocant catalogum eorum quae in his libris continentur vicesima pagina, indicat. Cum duplici indice, altero rerum, altero verborum locupletissimo.
Uniform title
Laws, etc.
Created/published
Edinburgi : Excudebat Thomas Finlason, anno Domini. 1609.
Description
[10], 172 leaves, 17, [3] p., 19-116, 118-122, [1] leaves ; (fol.)
Corporate author
Scotland.
Associated name
Skene, John, Sir, 1543?-1617.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Note
Imprimatur at foot of title: Cum privilegio Regiae Majestatis.

"Statuta, sive assisae Regis VVilhelmi, Regis Scotiae .." (caption title) begins new foliation and register.

Includes indexes and a final errata leaf.

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶ [par.]⁴ A-2E⁶ 2F⁴; ²A-S⁶ ²T⁴ ²V².

Variant has leaf after second 116 numbered 119.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 22624
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S117417
Genre/form
Printing privileges.
Imprimaturs.
Annotations.
Prices (Provenance)
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.

Call number
STC 22624
Folger-specific note
HH191/5. Variant. Manuscript price on old endpaper, now affixed to back paste-down (16s); t.p. torn and repaired (silked), affecting title; rust-holes affecting text, ²E5, ²V1; manuscript correction, ²E5v. Collated and re-bound (from old vellum) in half goatskin at Folger in February 1961; note on the conservation bound in at back. Provenance: gift of the author, John Skene, to William Guild (1586-1657) (inscription on old endpaper, now affixed to front paste-down: "Liber Magistrj Gulielmj Guilde dono ei Edinburgi 1610 ... per ... D. Johannem Skeneum ..."); t.p. with Guild and Skene inscriptions ("Joannes Skene. Cl[ericus] Leg[um]"); inscribed on t.p. and final leaf: "Liber Georgij [George] Wilson abredonensis [Aberdeen] Scoti 25 aprilis 1660"; Harmsworth copy

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