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Date startStart date of the disease. 1425-06 +
Date endEnd date of the disease. 1426-03 +
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DiseaseMentioned disease(s) Plague
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LanguageLanguage of the original text Latin
KeywordFurther keyword(s) Mortality
last edited 19. 12. 2025 by EpiMedDat-Bot.

After the feast day of the ascension of the Virgin Mary (August 15), King Władysław moves to Ruthenia in order to avoid the plague which is raging in the whole of the kingdom of Poland during summer, autum and winter and which has caused many casualties of both sexes and from all strata.

Text originalOriginal text

Ex Kalisch in Posnaniam et caetera Maioris Poloniae loca processit, et diem Assumptionis Sanctae Mariae in Przedborz tenuit. Abinde per Radoschicze, Chanezini, Kyelcze, Bodzanczin, Syenno, Solyecz in Lublinensem, post in Russiae terras descendit, fugiendo pestem, quae fere universum Regnum Poloniae pervaserat, et per tempus aestatis, autumni et hiemis saeviens, plures mortales utriusque sexus, variarum conditionum absumpserat.

Text translationEnglish translation of the text

From Kalisz he proceeded to Poznań and other places in Greater Poland and on the day of the ascension of the holy Virgin Mary he stopped in Przedbórz. From there he moved via Radoschicze, Chanezini, Kyelcze, Bodzanczin, Syenno, and Solyeczdown down to Ljubliana and after that into Ruthenia fleeing the plague which had wildly penetrated the whole kingdom of Poland and which had, through summer, autumn and winter, consumed many mortals of both sexes and of various standings.

References

  1. ^ Iohanis Dlugossii Annales seu cronicae incliti regni Poloniae 
  2. ^ Translation by Christian Oertel 

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