Regiam Majestatem. The auld lawes and constitutions of Scotland, faithfullie collected furth of the Register, and other auld authentick bukes, fra the dayes of King Malcolme the second, vntill the time of King James the first, of gude memorie: and trewlie corrected in sindrie faults, and errours, committed be ignorant writers. And translated out of Latine in Scottish language, to the vse and knawledge of all the subjects within this realme. with ane large table of the contents therof, be Sr. John Skene of Curriehill, clerk of our Soveraigne Lordis Register, Counsell, and Rollis. Quhereunto are adjoined twa treatises, the ane, anent the order of proces observed before the Lords of Counsell, and Session: the other of crimes, and judges in criminall causes. The contents of this volume, followes in the twefth page.
Scotland
Category
Books
Date
1609
Materials
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3093370
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 124, 124-158, [1]; 181, [3] leaves ; fol. Running number: 4475. Provenance: manuscript bookseller's codes[?] on front pastedown: "c yp pp". Manuscript inscriptions on front fly-leaf: "Mr St. Amand / No. 1 in Panfield [or Penfield] Court" [possibly James St. Amand (1687-1754), classical scholar and book collector], "18s" [in pencil], and "NE-/NK-". Manuscript inscription at head of title page (partially cropped): "John Noll"[?]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; blind thin thick thin fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; five raised bands; blind dotted rolls along raised bands; gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Scotland Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill (c.1543-1617)