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The development of municipal chanceries, both in the Middle Ages and in the modern period, was closely connected with their staff, primarily with municipal scribes, whose techniques and work organization provided these local government bodies with a distinct character and style. It was often the case that the municipal scribe (particularly in smaller urban areas) exercised considerable cultural influence on the authorities and the local community through various contacts with the scientific world, other cities and through their own work evidenced in municipal chronicles or poetry. Similar, and occasionally even more significant, influence of the scribe, both in the administrative as well as cultural and social areas, may be observed in medieval Chełmno, where the first municipal chancery was most likely established at the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century,1 even though the first documents of the city council were issued a little earlier than that.2 The medieval municipal chancery of Chełmno seems particularly worth investigating in this respect, not only because of several interesting figures of prominent municipal scribes, but also on account of the ambitions of the city itself, undoubt-

The city’s notaries in the chancery of Chełmno from 14th to the 16th century