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{{Book source
|source_type=Book
|full_title=Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum : The register of the Great seal of Scotland, A.D. 1306-1668.
|subject_category=Public records of Scotland; Transcriptions of Scottish documents
|anthology=No
|editor_first1=John Maitland
|editor_last1=Thomson
|date=1912
|orig_date=1st pub. 1814
|publisher=H.M. General Register House
|link_publisher=No
|publication_place=Edinburgh
|volume_set=The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland
|volume=1
|edition=New
|publication=The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland
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|google_access=free ebook
|hathitrust=007703273
|hdl=2027/njp.32101038096846
|hdl_access=free
|oclc=674363124
|citation_template=Reg mag sig full
|notes={{Reg mag sig volumes}}

=== References to the medieval register itself===

These are the actual Great Seal register citations.

Examples:

*RMS, L. i fol. 26
*RMS, L. i fol. 162

Meaning:

*L. = ''Liber'' (book of the register)
*i = Book 1
*fol. = folio (page of the manuscript)

So:

: ''RMS, L. i fol. 26'' = Book 1 of the Great Seal register, folio 26.

These are the closest you get to the medieval register itself.

=== References to the original charter enrolments===

Examples:

*RMS, R. ii fol. 10
*RMS, R. v fol. 64

Here R means Register of charters enrolled rather than the book copies used earlier.

So these are:

: Later medieval register volumes in which the charter is recorded.

=== References to manuscripts used by Thomson===

'''Haddington MS'''

Examples:

* ''Haddington MS, p. 47; numbered 45''
* ''Haddington MS, p. 50''

These refer to the Haddington Manuscript, an early modern transcript of the Great Seal register.

Purpose:

* The original medieval register volumes were partially lost or damaged.
* Antiquaries copied them earlier.
* Thomson sometimes relied on those copies.

So these entries mean:

: The charter survives in the Haddington transcript, not necessarily in the surviving medieval register.

'''Register House Calendar'''

Example:

* ''Register House Calendar No. 81''

This refers to an archival calendar created in the Register House (Edinburgh) before Thomson’s edition.

It usually means:

: The charter was known from a pre-publication archive summary rather than a surviving register folio.

=== References to other charter collections===

Example:

*Suther., no. 20

This is a citation to:

: ''[[The Sutherland Book]]'' (William Fraser, 1892)

which prints charters relating to the earls of Sutherland.

Thomson often referenced external printed charter collections when they preserved related material.

|footnotes=No
}}

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