This paper manuscript, copied in Bellinzona in the middle of the
15th century, contains a series of decrees issued by the Visconti
government for the municipal authorities between 1352 and 1443. At
the end of the text, there are blank pages onto which were copied
letters of exemption for the people of theVal Mesolcina (a valley
in the Swiss Canton of Grisons), which were issued in the years
1498-1499. The manuscript belonged to the Varone family; in 1537 it
was bought and restored by the Bellinzona notary Giovanni Giacomo
Rusca. In the 17th century, Carlo Bernardino Zacconi donated the
manuscript to the library of the Jesuits of Bellinzona, which was
later taken over by the Benedictines, and around 1787 the
manuscript came to the Abbey Library of Einsiedeln.
