@inbook{1542992c130d4d549ba0d05197428013,
title = "The Intended Readers of Chalmers' Compendium",
abstract = "This sixteenth-century text has never been published before, but is the first comprehensive survey of Scots law ever written. Completed in 1566 by David Chalmers of Ormond (c. 1529-1592), a Scots lawyer and judge, this work summarises systematically a large number of laws from different sources, and is dedicated by its author to Mary, Queen of Scots. The volume contains a comprehensive introduction, and reproduces Chalmers{\textquoteright} entire text from the only extant manuscript, adding an editorial commentary to each of the 1,595 chapters.",
author = "Andrew Simpson",
year = "2023",
month = apr,
day = "20",
language = "English",
series = "Publications of the Stair Society",
publisher = "Stair Society",
pages = "41--60",
editor = "Coutts, {WInifred } and Goodare, {Julian } and Andrew Simpson",
booktitle = "The Compendium of the Laws of Scotland by David Chalmers of Ormond",
}