The provenance of works is always of interest in legal history. Thus, it is worth nothing that the Lawbook Exchange in New Jersey has just recently offered for sale a splendid copy of the 1614 (second) edition of the Opera omnia of Jacques Cujas prepared by the great scholar’s pupil, Alexander Scot, a Scotsman, who had married the daughter a notable printer in Lyon. The first edition was dated 1606. This copy bears the bookplate of the family of Aytoun of Inchdairnie, in Fife. The library and other contents of Inchdairnie Castle was sold in 1901. Like many such Scottish families the Aytouns had many links with lawyers and the law.
The works of Cujas ere popular in Scotland: see Prévost, Jacques Cujas: La Fabrique d’un “Grand Juriste” (2024), pp. 147-59.
