Record Number: 5116

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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

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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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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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

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5116

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

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]

Additional Information:

n/a

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://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5116, accessed: 04 May 2024

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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.