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Disputations of Scots Attending Universities in the Netherlands 105
particularly spectacular results. After consulting the card index of Dutch
disputations, dissertations and academic orations set up by Professor S. van
der Woude and placed in the university library in Amsterdam, and after going
through many volumes of collected disputations, 45 and examining library
and publishers' catalogues, 46 I have tracked down only five legal practice
disputations:
Robertus Sinclair, Scoto-Britannus. Respondens.
[Disputatio] de dividuis et individuis.
Divided into thirteen theses. Added are 10 parerga.
45 Besides the two undermentioned collections in the names of Maestertius and Pagenstecher
I went through: E. Bronchorst, Methodus feudorum quatuor publicis disputationibus in illustri
academ. Ultra], repetita notisque et moribus illustrata, autore et praeside Cypriano Regneri ab
Oosterga (Utrecht, 1652) listed in M. Ahsmann and R. Feenstra, Bibliografie van hoogleraren in
de rechten aan de Leidse Universiteit tot 1811, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Rechtswetenschap,
Deel vii, Afl. 1 (Amsterdam-Oxford-New York, 1984), no.103; J. Maestertius, Analysis juris feudalis
sex disputationibus comprehensa, quas in Batavorum Academia exercitii gratia sub praesidio lacobi
Maestertii publice disquirendas proposuerunt sex candidati, quorum nomina singulis disputationibus
adscripta sunt (Leyden, 1637) (Ahsmann and Feenstra, no.342); B. Schotanus, Disputationes juridicae
ad seriem materiae Pandectarum conscriptae a Bernardo Schotano, quibus fundamenta iuris per rationes
decidendi ac dubitandi explicantur (Amsterdam, 1653) (Ahsmann and Feenstra, no.591); C. van Eck,
Desectis etphilosophia iurisconsultorum (Jena, 1724) (not mentioned in R. Dekkers, Bibliotheca Belgica
Juridica, een bio-bibliographisch overzicht der rechtsgeleerdheid in de Nederlanden van de vroegste tijden
af tot 1800, Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academic voor Wetenschappen, Letteren
en Schone Kunsten van Belgie, Klasse der Letteren, Jaargang xiii, no.14, (Brussels, 1951), 50; A.
Matthaeus [II], De judiciis disputationes quindecim (Utrecht, 1639) (Dekkers, 111, no.3); idem, De
judiciis disputationes septendecim in illustri academia quae est Trajecti ad Rhenum publice propositae
ab Anth. Matthaeo (editio posthuma, Amsterdam, 1665) (Dekkers, 111, no.3); idem, Disputationes
de obligationibus XLU, de criminibus vn, de servitutibus vn etc. (ed. posthuma, Utrecht, 1660)
(Dekkers, 112, no.l, mentioning, however, A. Matthaeus III as the author); idem, Disputationes
de successionibus xx, de matrimoniis xm, de tutelis v etc. (Utrecht, 1652) (Dekkers, 111,
no.5); C.R. ab Oosterga, Censura Belgica seu novae notae et animadversiones quibus omnes et
singulae leges, quae continentur in XII libris Codicis, moribus praecipue Belgii . . . confirmantur
etc. Hisce ob connexionem causae accedunt ejusdem auctoris disputationes juridicae (Utrecht,
1666) (Dekkers, 126, nos.17 and 18); P. Voet, Disputationes ix de justitia etjure in Acad. Ultraj.
publice ventilatae (Utrecht, 1654-58) (not mentioned in Dekkers, 181-82); A. Matthaeus
[I], Collegia juris sex: unum fundamentorum juris, alterum Institutionum, tertium & quartum
earundem, quintum Pandectarum, sextum Codicis; quibus adjectae sunt disputationes quaedam
extraordinariae (Groningen, 1637) (Dekkers, 111, no. 15). Moreover I went through six boxes
containing 'loose' disputations from several Leyden faculties which are held by Leyden University
Library and bear the signatures 236 A 12; 236 B 3; 236 B 8; 236 C 12; 237 B 3; 238 A 5.
46 I examined the catalogues of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, of the Leyden and Utrecht
University Libraries and of the Advocates Library in Edinburgh (Catalogue of the Printed Books in the
Advocates Library [before 1871]). Among the Elzevier catalogues I mention C.F. Walther, Catalogue
methodique des dissertations ou theses academiques imprimees par les Elzevir de 1616 a 1712, recueillies
pour la premiere fois dans la Bibliotheque Imperiale publique a Saint-Petersbourg etc. (Brussels, 1864);
and H.B. Copinger, The Elzevier Press: A Handlist of the Productions of the Elzevier Presses at
Leyden, Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, with References to Willems, Berghman, Rahir and other
biographers (1927). Walther mentions the disputations of Sinclair and Leirmonthius, Copinger the ones
of R. Hamilton and G. Burnet, but not the disputation of R. Cook.