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Leges Quatuor Burgorum, 1496

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Identifier: MS 208/ff. 130r-150v

Contents

This section contains the Leges Quatuor Burgorum, or the Laws of the Four Burghs. This legal text regulated Lothian law, and was part of King David I’s codifiication of Scottish law, which he achieved mainy through the Leges inter Brettos et Scottos, or the Laws of the Brets and Scots, which was promulgated around the same time as the Leges Quatuor Burgorum.

In this manuscript, these laws start on f. 130r and contain 159 titles, including Assisa Vini et Cervisie, Assisa de Ponderibus et Mensuris, Custuma Portuum, and Iter Camerarii. It ends on f. 150v with the words Vide Assisas Regis David primi Rubricas xii, xiii, xiiii, etc. Expliciunt leges burgorum.

There are some notes and inscriptions following this section, on f. 151v.

Writing

This section is in a different hand from the previous section, but is written in the same hand as the following section; folios 1-129 are one hand, and folios 130-335 are in another

Dates

  • Creation: 1496

Creator

Language of Materials

Latin

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open to all. The manuscripts can be consulted in the Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh University Main Library.

Extent

21 folios

Repository Details

Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository

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