This manuscript from the library of Walter Supersaxo (ca.
1402-1482), Bishop of Sion, and of his son Georges (ca. 1450-1529),
contains a compendium of the statutes of Savoy, a legal code issued
in 1430 by Amadeus VIII, the first Duke of Savoy and the future
antipope Felix V. The compendium was printed for the first time in
1477 in Turin by Johannes Fabri (Hain 14050, GW M43623). Until
1475, this region of the canton of Valais below the river Morge of
Conthey was ruled by the Dukes of Savoy. This manuscript, S 100,
can be compared with two other manuscripts from the Supersaxo
library, namely with S 97bis (composite manuscript with the romance
of Pontus and Sidonia) and S 99 (John Mandeville, Voyages). All
three manuscripts were copied by Claude Grobanet, who was mentioned
in a 1474 document in Martigny, where he served Antoine Grossi Du
Châtelard, Lord of Isérables († 1495). In the beginning of the
16th century, the family of Antoine Du Châtelard apparently came
into financial difficulties; their property - and probably the
three manuscripts as well - then passed into the hands of Georges
Supersaxo.
Place
Preferred form
Martigny (Valais, Switzerland) (?)
Original form
Martigny (?)
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
