This manuscript from the library of Walter Supersaxo (ca.
1402-1482), Bishop of Sion, and of his son Georg (ca. 1450-1529)
contains two works in Latin. The first (ff. 1r-126r) is a treatise
on the Inquisition, written in Girona in 1359 by the Catalan
Dominican Nicolau Eymeric, Grand Inquisitor of Aragon (before
1320-1399). The version in S 97 contains the chapter De suspicione
(beginning on f. 104v), which is sometimes considered a separate
work; the table of contents was written on parchment (f. 1). In the
second part of the manuscript (ff. 132r-214r), there is a version
of the Gesta Romanorum in 31 chapters, a famous collection of
fables and moralizing tales that was probably written in Germany or
England before 1342. The first part of manuscript S 97 was copied
in 1460, the second part in 1465. The copyist was the priest
Cristoferus in Domo Lapidea (Im/Zum Steinhaus, Steinhauser) of
Lalden, rector of the altar of St. Fabian and St. Sebastian at the
Church of S. Mauritius in Naters. This same scribe is also
responsible for two more manuscripts in the Supersaxo library, S 96
and S 98, which contain theological and moral works. In addition,
in 1460, the same year as S 97, this scribe transcribed the De
jurisdictione inquisitorum a second time; this version can be found
in the first part of a composite manuscript in the library of the
Capuchin monastery of Sion, in RCap 73 (former shelfmark W 34).
Place
Preferred form
Valais (Switzerland) (?)
Original form
Valais (probably)
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
