Title: Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum In Archivis Publicis Asservatum (Register of the Great Seal of the Kings of Scots Preserved in the Public Archives)

Author: Scotland

Publisher: Record Commission, 1814 (Original in Austrian National Library)

Publishing Date: 1814 / 1834. Printed by command of his Majesty King George the Third

Edition: Not stated

Binding: Hardcover with marbled boards, red leather spine and corners

Pages: 256, plus Index Nominum 48 pages

Illustrated: With a few illustrations of charters as shown in our image

Interior Condition: Solid binding, complete and intact. Overall very good condition with some foxing

Exterior Condition: Edge and corner wear, heavy chipping of spine, wobbily front board, and detached back board as shown. Norfolk & Norwich library plate on upper front board, and also on inside front board

Dust Jacket: No

Size: Folio

ISBN: N/A

Comments: Preface in English. Text in Medieval Latin. The Register of the Great Seal is Scotland's oldest national record. The seal is applied to documents authorised by the monarch, with the register containing a record of these documents. The register has existed in varying states and levels of completeness for some 700 years.