@inbook{8906a057807140fcbeb159ada003e393,
title = "The Sources 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",
volume = "69",
series = "Stair Society",
publisher = "Stair Society",
pages = "97--122",
editor = "WInifred Coutts and Julian Goodare and Andrew Simpson",
booktitle = "The Compendium of the Laws of Scotland by David Chalmers of Ormond",
}