Regiam Maiestatem Scotiæ, veteres leges et constitutiones
Subtitle: ex archivis publicis, et antiquis libris manuscriptis collectae, recognitæ, & notis iuris ciuilis, canonici, Nortmannici auctoritate confirmatis, illustratæ, opera & studio Ioannis Skenæi, Regiæ Majestiati à concilijs & archivis publicis. Annotantur in margine, concordantiæ Iuris Diuini, legum Angliæ, & iuris nouissimi Scotiæ quod acta Parliamenti, vulgò, vocant. Catalogum eorum quæ in his libris continentur vicesima pagina, indicat. Cum duplici indice, altero rerum, altero verborum locupletissimo
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Apud Ioannem Billium
Published: 1613
Place of publication: Londini
Language: lat
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Civil procedure; Early works to 1800; Criminal law; Criminal procedure; Law
Other titles: Statuta, sive assisae Regis VVilhelmi, Regis Scotiae.; Statuta, sive assisae Regis Wilhelmi, Regis Scotiae.
Work titles: Laws, etc. (Regiam Majestatem)
Notes: Cut of the royal arms on title page.

"Cum privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis." --foot of title page.

Collation: [pi]A⁶ [par.]⁴ A-2E⁶ 2F⁴ ²A-²S⁶ ²T⁴ ²V² [$3 signed; misprinting ²D2 as 'Cii']

In paginated section, only odd numbered leaves are numbered.

Errors in foliation; in 1st group: leaves 91, 165-166, 167 numbered 92, 159-160, 162; in 2nd group: leaves 21, 27, 42, 92, 99, 107, 117-121 numbered 20, 25, 43, 91, 100, 100, 118-122 (final '2' in 122 printed upside down)

Ornament with Finlason's mark (McKerrow, Devices, no. 358α) used as tail piece, [par.]4 verso.

Another ornament with his mark (McKerrow, Devices, no. 363) used several times as a tail piece.

Device of Thomas Finlason (McKerrow, Devices, no. 225β) on ²V2 recto; arms on shield voided.

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

In predominantly roman type; some italic type.

Initials, some historiated; head and tail pieces; printer's ornaments.

Side notes.

Includes indexes.

A reissue of the 1609 Edinburgh ed. (STC 22624), with cancel title page.

Early English books online copy reproduced from original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

STC (2nd ed.) 22625

Ex libris Brinton Coxe -- Gift of Edmund James Drifton Coxe.

In pencil on front flyeaf: Brinton Coxe/ received/ December/ 1880. On verso in Latin, in an 18th century hand, a reference to this title in the 1745 catalogue of the library of Johan Peter von Ludewig. Owner's code (?) at foot of title page.