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Record 5116

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Evidence of engagement with the text: (1) occasional marginal notes; (2) marginal symbols throughout the text, crosses (ex. pp. 1,5,12), underlines (pp. 16, 520-1), score throughs (ex. p. 77) and pointing hands (ex. pp. 340, 348, 520).
Century:
Date: unknown
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Jo. Halkerston
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: Scotland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Conradus Lagus
Title: Methodica iuris traditio, seu ratio compendiaria, perveniendi ad veram solidamque iurisprud. mirifice ad omnes libros iuris: & DD. recte intelligendos vtilis, ex ore doctissimi, clarissimique iusrisconsulti D. Conradi Lagi annotata. ?
Genre: Law
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Lovanii: excudebat Bartholomaeus Grauius, suis, ac Martini Rotarij, impenis
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5116  
Source - Manuscript Other
  Author: Annotated book in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Conradus Lagus, "Methodica iuris traditio, seu ratio compendiaria, perveniendi ad veram solidamque iurisprud. mirifice ad omnes libros iuris: & DD. rected intelligendos vtilis, ex ore doctissimi, clarissimique iusrisconsulti D. Conradi Lagi annotata...." (Lovanii: escudebat Bartholomaeus Grauius, suis, ac Martini Rotarij, impenis, 1552), various pages. [DH LIB 1671],

Citation: Annotated book in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Conradus Lagus, "Methodica iuris traditio, seu ratio compendiaria, perveniendi ad veram solidamque iurisprud. mirifice ad omnes libros iuris: & DD. rected intelligendos vtilis, ex ore doctissimi, clarissimique iusrisconsulti D. Conradi Lagi annotata...." (Lovanii: escudebat Bartholomaeus Grauius, suis, ac Martini Rotarij, impenis, 1552), various pages. [DH LIB 1671], http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5116, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

This book is one of several items with the provenance of Jo. Halkerston. It is possible that Halkerston was a local legal official. The other name in the book is as yet unidentified.

 

 

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