This manuscript from the library of the Capuchin monastery of Sion
is divided into three parts, which were executed by three different
copyists. The first part (ff. 1-113) consists of a treatise on the
Inquisition from 1359, the De jurisdictione inquisitorum in et
contra christianos demones invocantes (with the chapter De
suspicione: beginning on f. 95r) by the Catalan Dominican Nicolau
Eymeric, General Inquisitor of Aragon. This first part was produced
in Naters in 1460 for Walter Supersaxo (ca. 1402-1482), Bishop of
Sion, by the priest Cristoferus in Domo Lapidea (Im/Zum Steinhaus,
Steinhauser) of Lalden, rector of the altar at the church in
Naters. Three more manuscripts in the Supersaxo library are due to
this same scribe, S 96, S 98 and especially S 97, which among other
texts contains a second copy of the De jurisdictione inquisitorum,
produced in the same year, 1460. The second part (ff. 114-134),
with rubricated and partly decorated initials (e.g., on ff. 114r
and 127r), contains the Historia Karoli Magni et Rotholandi (also
referred to as The Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin ; about the middle of
the 12th century, sometimes attributed to Aimery Picaud), a tale
about fictional wars conducted by Charlemagne in Spain and France.
This work of propaganda for the Spanish Crusade and for the
Pilgrimage to Compostela, which was particularly inspired by the
Chanson de Roland, experienced great success in the Middle Ages.
The third part (ff. 135-157) contains synodal statutes issued by
Walter Supersaxo in 1460; another copy thereof is preserved in the
archives of the Cathedral Chapter of Sion (drawer 3, number 67/5).
An note of ownership on the flyleaf f. V1r indicates a certain
Johannes Huser of Selkingen as the owner of RCap 73; he is attested
in Sion between 1532 and 1561 as rector of two altars.
