Ane abridgment of S[i]r John Gibsone of Durie his Practiques.
Contributors: Gibson, Alexander, Sir, Lord Durie, d. 1644.; Scotland. Court of Session.
Published: 1647
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. -- Scotland.; Manuscripts, English -- Washington (D.C.)
Other titles: Abridgment of various acts of Parliament.
Notes: Ms. (holograph?)
Caption title (p. 1); it should probably be read "Abridgment by Sir John Gibson of [Lord] Durie's Practicks," i.e. abridgment by John Gibson of the work, written by his father, Sir Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie (d. 1644), known as Lord Durie's Practicks, which was not published until 1690, with title: The decisions of the Lords of Council and Session.
Penciled on prelim. p. 6: Abridg[ment] of various acts of Parliament (erroneously, from subcaption on p. 1). The book is a digest of ca. 2500 decisions, under ca. 270 alphabetically arranged headings, of the Scottish Court of Session (cases from years 1621-1642).
"Probably written about the middle of the seventeenth century from Lord Durie's manuscript"--Ann. rep. of the Librarian of Congress, 1943.
Former owner: William Murray (inscribed on prelim. p. [1]). Accessioned in LC Aug. 12, 1942 (LL 5061B1A).
Probably Baker II, 342.
Includes index.