The Great Pestilence (A.D. 1348-9), Now Commonly Known as the Black Death

by Francis Aidan Gasquet

[64] Thiener, Monumenta Historica Hungariæ, i, p. 767.

[65] Wadding, Annales Minorum, viii, p. 25 (ed. 1723).

[66] Olivier de la Haye, Poëme sur la grande peste de 1348. Introduction par G. Guigue, p. xviii, note.

[67] Breve Chronicon in De Smet, Recueil des Chroniques de Flandre, iii, p. 19.

[68] Delisle, Cabinet des Manuscrits, i, p. 532.

[69] Ibid. Here the note abruptly finishes.

[70] H. Martin, Histoire de France, v, p. 111.

[71] Marlot, Histoire de Ville de Reims, iv, p. 63.

[72] All copies of this chronicle give "quingente," and it has usually been stated that the number so buried each day was 500. M. Géraud, who edited the work for the Société de l'Histoire de France, suggests that it is a mistake for 50, and quotes two MSS., in which in the margin the following note is found: "L corps par jour a l'Hostel-Dieu de Paris." As this reading is more probable it has been adopted above.

[73] Continuatio Chronici Guillelmi di Nangiaco, éd. pour la Société de l'Histoire de France par H. Géraud, ii, pp. 211–217.