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SWISS MEDIEVAL NOTARY MANUSCRIPT. Visp (Canton of Valais, South of...
SWISS MEDIEVAL NOTARY MANUSCRIPT. Visp (Canton of Valais, South of Switzerland), 1480.
Single leaf of parchment (377x185-210 mm), 37 lines of text in 15th century cursive writing. 12-lines pens marginal extension to the first letter of the text. Signum tabellionis of the notary based on the pattern of the cross at the end of the leaf.
Very scarce Swiss notary manuscript, that includes some German names such as Creutzer, Wellerus and Dornen. These names, together with the notary’s signature of Petrus de Ryedtmatten de Vespia connect the document to the Swiss area of Viège/Visp in the Canton of Valais.
The Ryedtmatten (or Riedmatten) family is attested in the area since the 12th century and many of its members were notaries as well as bishops or institutional functionaries. Among them the bishops of Sion Adrian von Riedmatten (1529-1548), Hildebrand von Riedmatten (1565-1604) and Adrian II von Riedmatten (1604-1613), all of them important in the fight against Zwingli’s reformed opinions and the perduring of the predominant Catholic faith in Valais, and Pierre de Riedmatten, grand baillis of the Valais’ Canton from 1701 to 1707.