| Description | Bulls and Charters [Fragments], Inscription on the front cover reads: 'The first seven folios contain Papal Bulls and the Charter of Privledges granted by Jac.IV. N.B. folios 10 and 11 are wanting. The first foundation of Bishop Elphinstone Folio 13 et seq. The two foundations of Bishop Elphinstone which is present standing rule of the college. Folio IV, page 2 is a charter for the burgh of Old Aberdeen' [Carta priueligiorum ciuitatis Abirdonensis: James IV confirms previous rights and privileges and of new and creates Old Aberdeen a burgh of barony. 21st August, 1498. Printed copy in Spalding Club Records of Old Aberdeen, volume I, page 12 - 18]; the Foundation Bull (fol 1r-2r) MSK 256/43/1; bulls of Alexander VI, 1500, MSK 256/43/4 and 6 (fols 2r - 3v.); Bull of Julius II, 1506, MSK 256/43/10 (fols 3v - 4r); charter of James IV, 21st August 1498, not in the University Archives (fols 4r - 5r); charter of James IV, 19th August 1498, not in the university archives (5r - 6v); bull of Paul III, 11 October 1538, not in the university archives but printed in Innes, Fasti Aberdonenses, no. 71, pp. 109 - 110, where it is said to be from the original (fols 6v. - 7v); Foundation Charter (fols 8r - 9v, incomplete); bull of Julius II, 1506, MSK 256/43/9 (fols 12r - 12v., incomplete); Second Foundation Charter (not complete) (fols 13r - 25v.);
The material was inventoried at the request of Francis Edmond, 1827 - 1831, by James Aitken in Edinburgh. Full description of codex in Colin McLaren's article: Visiting the Charter Chest, page 12. McLaren lists three items in this codex which the archive no longer has the originals. |
| Physical Description | Note in deposit file: Sent for rebinding to S.M. Cockerell, May 1956. On the back page is a note from Cockerell: 'DC 3643, KC.90. Leaves thymoled and sized, framed with handmade paper and sewn together on 5 tapes, handmade paper ends, linen joints, split boards, spine covered with red Native Niger Morocco, marbled paper sides, vellum tips, gold lettering, pencil notes on fly leaf fixed. May 1956. |