The Transmission and Use of the Collected Legal Decisions of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Scotland

• Published in: Library Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 325 - 359
• Main Author: Wilson, Adelyn L M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Oxford University Press 01.09.2018; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: 16th century; 17th century; Court decisions; Legal studies; Maitland, Richard; Scotland

Abstract This article examines the textual transmission of the collected legal decisions (or practicks) of the sixteenth-century Scottish judge, Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington. It applies the method of stemmatology to the twenty extant manuscript texts to reveal their interrelationships and the...