Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
(MANUSCRIPT.) Ane Breiff Treatiss upon Severall Substantiall Heads of ye Scotts Law verie profitable for young students written by ye most Learned Jurisconsult Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall. manuscript in english on paper, written in cursive hand in brown ink. [2], 124, [13] leaves. 149x91 mm, modern sprinkled leather; contents toned, occasional dog-earing in lower outer corners. Scotland, later 17th century

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The writings on Scottish law by Sir Thomas Hope, Lord Advocate of Scotland (d. 1646), remained unpublished until the 1726 printing of his Minor Practicks, but manuscript copies apparently circulated after his death.