A digital facsimile of the Aberdeen Burgh Court Roll of 1317 is available via the Stair Society’s digitised manuscripts page.  This is the single surviving roll from the medieval burgh courts of Aberdeen, and dates from the period August-October 1317. It is held by Aberdeen City Archives, reference ACA/5/6.

The roll predates the later council register volumes, which survive from 1398 onwards. The 1317 burgh court roll is on parchment and it represents a unique survival from the courts of a Scottish burgh dating from the early fourteenth century.

A translation of the roll into English, and a discussion of its contents is available in Andrew R. C. Simpson and Jackson W. Armstrong, ‘The Roll of the Burgh Courts of Aberdeen, August-October 1317’, in Miscellany Eight, ed. by A. M. Godfrey, Stair Society 67, (Edinburgh, 2020), 57-93 (see The Roll of the Burgh Courts of Aberdeen, August–October 1317 (stairsociety.org)). 

The translation by Simpson and Armstrong incorporates the transcription of the roll produced by Dr Margaret Moore in Early Records of the Burgh of Aberdeen 1317, 1398-1407, ed. by W. Croft Dickinson, Scottish History Society 49, (Edinburgh, 1957), at 1–17. For further discussion of the roll and its context, see Andrew R. C. Simpson, ‘Urban Legal Procedure in Fourteenth Century Scotland: A fresh look at the 1317 court roll of Aberdeen’, in Comparative Perspectives in Scottish and Norwegian Legal History, Trade and Seafaring, ed. by Andrew Simpson and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (Edinburgh, 2023), 181–208.