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1348-06-26-Lund + (Since now - according to what we have lear … Since now - according to what we have learnt - this custom has prevailed in our diocese of Lund, before we were accepted as bishop to take care of the church's governance, that the heirs of deceased clergymen who have had beneficium here, for shorter and longer periods of time, without any fixed rule, but according to various decisions of various authorities, have received the revenues and incomes of said deceased clergymen's benefices, whereby several, both the heirs of the said deceased, as well as those who received the same benefices, have sometimes suffered a serious interruption in their rights, you have humbly requested that we, with with vigilant care we will provide you with a suitable medicine.will provide you with a suitable medicine.)
1348-00-00-Italy 004 + (Since we have traveled from the east to th … Since we have traveled from the east to the west, we are permitted to discuss all that we have seen and known with probable arguments and to declare the terrible judgments of God that we can. Let everyone hear and be compelled to overflow with tears. For the Almighty says, "I will destroy the man whom I have created from the face of the earth, because he is flesh and blood, and he will be turned into ashes and dust. My spirit will not remain in man." What do you think, good God, about thus destroying your creation and commanding the human race to suddenly perish in this way? Where is your mercy, where is the covenant with our fathers? Where is the blessed Virgin who holds sinners in her lap? Where is the precious blood of the martyrs, where are the decorated bands of confessors and virgins, and the entire army of paradise? They do not cease to pray for sinners. Where is the precious death of Christ on the cross and our admirable redemption? Cease, I beseech you, your anger, good God, and do not crush sinners so that the fruit of penance may multiply. Remove all evil, and do not let the just be condemned with the unjust, for you desire mercy, not sacrifice. I hear you, sinner, instilling my words in your ears. I command you to stop. The times of mercy have ended. I am called the God of vengeance. I am pleased to avenge sins and crimes. I will give my signs to those in the east, let them strive to ensure the salvation of their souls. Thus it happened that from the aforementioned land of Caffa, a certain ship, governed by a few sailors, even infected with the venomous plague, set sail and arrived at Genoa. Some went to Venice, others to other parts of Christendom. It is incredible to say. When the sailors approached any lands, as if accompanied by malignant spirits, mixing with the people, every city, every place, every land and its inhabitants of both sexes, infected by the contagious pestilence, suddenly collapsed in death. And when one began to fall sick, soon falling and dying, he poisoned the entire household. Those who came to bury the corpses fell by the same kind of death. Thus, death entered through the windows, and with the cities and castles depopulated, the places mourned their dead inhabitants. Tell, Genoa, what have you done? Tell, Sicily, and the numerous islands of the sea, declare the judgments of God. Explain, Venice, Tuscany, and all of Italy, what were you doing. We Genoese and Venetians are compelled to reveal the judgments of God. Oh, sorrow, when we arrived at our cities with our fleets, we entered our homes. And since we were held by a severe illness, with scarcely ten of us out of a thousand sailors surviving, relatives, friends, and neighbors flocked to us from everywhere. Alas for us, who bore the arrows of death, as they held us in their embraces and kisses, while we spoke words, we were compelled to pour out [[poison]] from our mouths. Thus, they returning to their homes, soon poisoned their entire household. And within three days, the family struck by the arrow of death lay dead, and those attending the funerals of many could not find enough earth for burials, as the number of the dead increased. Priests and doctors, whose care for the sick was most needed, while striving to visit the sick, oh sorrow, leaving the sick, immediately followed the dead. Oh, fathers, oh mothers, oh sons, and wives, whom prosperity long preserved unharmed, neither the unfortunate nor the most unfortunate were buried together in the same grave. Those who enjoyed equal prosperity and happiness, the same tomb received, given as food for worms. Oh harsh death, impious death, bitter death, cruel death, that thus divides parents, separates spouses, kills sons, and separates brothers and sisters. We, the miserable, lament our calamities. We, the miserable, lament our calamities.)
1379-00-00-Iceland + (Six ships came to Iceland and smallpox spread all over Iceland, and there was a great loss of life. Twelve priests died in the south of the country and several ones in the north of the country [...] and there was a lot of snowfall and a harsh winter.)
1341-00-00-Iceland 005 + (Sixth fire in Mount Hekla with such a larg … Sixth fire in Mount Hekla with such a large rumbling that the whole country trembled so that in distant places and districts the windows of houses shook because of strong winds for a long time and then the weather was calm. There was so much darkness from the ashfall in nearby districts that lights burned in houses for days. This was six nights before Urban Mass (= 19 May). Due to this fall of ash, a large part of the cattle died in the south of the country, so that many people became destitute of livestock and left their houses, their properties and lands. Many towns around in the district of Skálholt and Rangárvellir and a bit further east were laid waste.ir and a bit further east were laid waste.)
1291-00-00-Iceland 002 + (Smallpox on Iceland. [...] A harsh, icy winter when cattle died.)
1310-00-00-Iceland 006 + (Smallpox on Iceland. and tongue-disease.)
1347-00-00-Iceland 002 + (Smallpox swept through the entire country and many people died.)
1313-00-00-Iceland 002 + (Snowstorms and mortality of cattle on Iceland so that in many parts of the countryside people became very destitute of livestock and mostly horses.)
1348-00-00-Aquila5 + (So large was fear, that everybod trembled … So large was fear, that everybod trembled / And expected to die any day / people were more preoccupied with their souls / and made their testaments as they were still healthy. You have seen how hastily people went to judges and notaries / to make their testaments day and night. / and those asked high prices, considering the risk / and it was expensive to find the necessary witnesses. When people searched them and the witnesses asked: / ‚Is the testament written?‘ If no, they didn’t come / if it was written, they agreed to come / but didn’t enter the house, just talked at the door. And I wanted to tell how it was in general / during the mortality when testaments were made / with jugdes and notaries and witnesses asked / if the document wasn’t published immediately. If a man returned after some days to get the testament / he found the judge or notarly not available / as some where ill or already about to die / or some withness had passed away. Who wanted to secure the juridical act / had to pay the notary a florin (gold coin) / so he would ask the judge to sign immediately / people accepted this, there was no other way.udge to sign immediately / people accepted this, there was no other way.)
1464-06-30-Hamburg + (So now we understand how the great dying was in Hamburg, so that we were very anxious to get into this great pestilence and therefore, because of their honour, we asked for good advice on how best to behave.)
1348-09-29-Muehldorf + (So when the plague and the excessive passing of people had cruelly ravaged many regions, it came to Bavaria, namely to Mühldorf; where, as it was said, on the feast of Michaelmas of the past year ([[1348]]), 1400 of the poorer people there died.)
1346-00-00-Florence 001 + (So, as there was now no doubt about the th … So, as there was now no doubt about the threat of famine, the city showed its resourcefulness, gathering large supplies of grain in Africa, Sardinia, Sicily and many other places and seeing to their importation simultaneously by land and sea. But these steps were not enough to avoid the enormous difficulties they faced that year. For throngs of women and children from the countryside came (p. 308) into the city in long lines to beg. They were joined by multitudes from the nearby cities which had been less provident in this respect, so that there was almost an infinite number of people to feed. Amid these challenges the city’s great merit and humanity shone forth. For not only was not a single immigrant or foreigner turned away, but even the poor, with gratuitous liberality, were sustained throughout this great dearth of provisions, so that Florence seemed almost to have conferred a benefit on the human race. In this year, moreover, many allowances were made on behalf of the poor, and principally this: that the harshness of creditors was kept in check. A law was passed prohibiting suitors to collect debt except under particular conditions; the city felt that the multitude was oppressed enough already by the famine. And in addition to the famine there were the diseases which broke out among the throng of immigrants unused to the city, then spread among the urban masses, so that mercy and succor were needful.es, so that mercy and succor were needful.)
1230-00-00-Denmark + (Solar eclipse and a great pestilence among men and animals.)
1348-00-00-Norway + (Such a harsh spring of snow and frozen hot … Such a harsh spring of snow and frozen hot springs that no one remembered anything alike. There was such a deadly disease and great loss of life in Norway and abroad that no one had known such an example since Noah's flood. And it laid waste both cities and villages, castles and market towns so swiftly that almost no one was able to give account (before God] until Pope Clement called to sing a mass for the remission of sins, of which he had composed three, where [all] should stand on their knees with candles. Grassless summer.heir knees with candles. Grassless summer.)
1314-00-00-Iceland + (Such a high mortality among poor people caused by a famine in the south of the country that 300 dead bodies came to Strandarkirkja in Selvogur, another hundred to Skálholt and many to each church ...)
1360-00-00-Poland 1 + (Such was the moartality in the whole of Ch … Such was the moartality in the whole of Christianity and most [severly] in the kingdom of Poland during the reign of King Kazimir, that hardly one third of Christianity remained and it was worst in Cracow. This mortalitiy was credited against the Jews through poisoning. They were at this time burned in Cracow and elsewhere. this time burned in Cracow and elsewhere.)
1255-00-00-Foggia + (Such, however, was the fortune of the Prince at that time, that although many from the Papal army in Foggia died daily, and many lay sick, in the Prince's army, which was before the city, very few were sick, and only two died there.)
1340-03-00-Florence + (Suddenly there began a great mortality, so … Suddenly there began a great mortality, so that almost no one who fell ill could escape it; and more than a sixth of the best and dearest citizens, male and female, died, so that there was no family that did not die, and where two or three or more; and the pestilence lasted until the coming winter. And more than fifteen male and female bodies and children were buried in the city, so that the city was filled with weeping and sorrow, and there was nothing else to do but mourn the dead. And so it was ordered that when the dead were brought to the church, the people should leave; they had been so long before the [[funeral]] was made, and then they were preached with solemn offices to the mayors; and it was ordered that no bannermen should go out for the dead. In the countryside the death toll was not so great, but there were many who died. The famine and dearth followed, added to that of the previous year, so that with all the death toll, the staio of grain was worth more than 30 money, and it would have been worth much more, if the Commune had not taken steps to bring in more money [...] [p... 227] Because of this mortality, on the eighteenth day of June, on the advice of the bishop and the religious, a general procession was held in Florence, where almost all the healthy male and female citizens were present with the body of Christ, which is in Santo Ambruogio, and with it it went throughout the whole city until the ninth hour, with more than 150 torchi lit ninth hour, with more than 150 torchi lit)
1327-09-06-Pisa + (Summoned by Lord Castruccio of Lucca, he c … Summoned by Lord Castruccio of Lucca, he came to Tuscany, where he besieged the city of Pisa, which he eventually captured, and entrusted it to Lord Castruccio. There, a severe pestilence killed many people, among whom were Gebhard III. of Graisbach, Bishop of Eichstätt, and Gottfried II, Count of Sayn.ichstätt, and Gottfried II, Count of Sayn.)
1213-01-18-Agara + (Tamar stopped in Nach’armagevi, a place lo … Tamar stopped in Nach’armagevi, a place located high in the mountains. And all the didebulis and nobles were there with her. she took care of the state’s affairs and particularly those related to the churches and monasteries. And while she was there, she caught a disease, one that eats away at us people; it progressed day after day, becoming more and more severe. she hid it for a long time, so as not to worry anybody. But when the illness resisted [[treatment]], with no benefit from medicine, the Queen revealed she had it. This disease of Tamar was probably inevitable; such long-lasting military burdens prey upon the natural weakness of women, and Tamar’s body could not live and remain protected from all kinds of accidents. But see, the people, who were devoted to her deserve much pity: how could they deal with such a disease? They took her in a palanquin to Tbilisi, and a few days later they decided, as they were wont to do, to climb into the woody mountains. They were in a hurry, and took Tamar there, still, in the palanquin. But her merciless disease took on yet graver form. They brought her to the fortress of Agari. And all the searches for a medical cure turned out to be vain. [...] on the eighteenth of January, Tamar fall asleep with the sleep of a righteous one; and the sun went out of Georgia, and only the urge to glorify her grave, gave sense to the earthly life among all us Christianso the earthly life among all us Christians)
1421-00-00-Novgorod + (That [[autumn]], September 8 ([[1421]]), the korkota disease began.)
1278-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia-Sim + (That [[winter]] [[1278]] many people died of various diseases.)
1421-09-08-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia Sim + (That autumn [1421], on September 8, the plague began and there was famine in the winter.)
1364-00-00-Pereyaslavl + (That autumn and that winter there was a gr … That autumn and that winter there was a great epidemic among the people: in Pereyaslavl people were dying 20 or 30 a day, and sometimes 60 or 70, and sometimes 100 or more. And the sickness was like this: as if a rogatina (bear spear) hit them behind the shoulder, or in the breast, or in the shoulder and when they got sick they started coughing blood and burning a fire<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>, and then they sweated and shivered and lay there for a day or two, and rarely three days, and so they died; and others died because of the bubos, and the bubos were not in the same places in everyone: some on the neck, others under the cheek, others in the sinus area, others behind the shoulders, others on the thighs. All this was happening not only in the city of Pereyaslavl itself, but across its territory. And this doom came, sent from God upon the people, from the south from [[Bezezh]] to [[Novgorod]], and then to [[Kolomna]], and then to Pereyaslavl, and then for the next year to [[Moscow]], and in all cities and lands there was a great and terrible epidemy, for they could not keep up with the living to bury the dead, for there were dead everywhere: in the cities and in the villages, in the houses and in the churches, and there was hardship and sorrow and weeping inconsolable; for there were few alive, but all dead, and five or six dead were buried in the pits, and sometimes ten and more; many mansions were empty, and in others there were one or two survivors, woman or man or few children.)
1421-10-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia + (That autumn, in September [6929], the plague began and there was famine in the winter.)
1348-04-28-Dubrovnik + (That shall be written to our officials and the city of Ragusa, with beautiful words, expressing condolences for the epidemic-related case of mortality, about which they say the number of persons has been diminished very much)

1309-00-00-Iceland 001 + (That was called spring of mortality.)
1309-00-00-Iceland 002 + (That was called spring of mortality.)

1288-00-00-Poland-Rus-Tatars + (That winter God's wrath appeared in the guise of great plague not only in Rus' alone, but also in Poland. That very same winter all of the horses, cattle, and sheep perished also in the land of the Tatars. Everything perished; nothing remained.)
1278-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia + (That winter [[1278]] many people died of various diseases.)
1287-00-00-Poland + (That winter there was a great plague in Poland [as a result of which] a countless number [of people] died.)
1227-00-00-Svignaskarð + (That winter was called sandwinter, and it was a very hard winter when hundred of Snorri Sturluson's cattle died out in Svignaskarð.)
1154-00-00-path from Suzdal and Rostov to the Kozelsk + (That year [[1154]] … That year [[1154]]/[[1155]] Yuri [Dolgorukiy] went with the inhabitants of [[Rostov]] and [[Suzdal]] and with all his children<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>. into Rus. At that time was an epidemic among the horses belonging to his warriors. The epidemic was like we had never [seen] before.)
1186-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia + (That year [[1186]] … That year [[1186]]<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>. the disease was very severe among the people, for there was not a single manor without a sick person, and in another town there was no one to give water, because everyone lie sick. God punishes his servants with many misfortunes, with water and fire, and with serious diseases. fire, and with serious diseases.)
1187-00-00-Rusia + (That year [[1187]] … That year [[1187]] there was a severe disease among people, because there was not a single manor without a sick person, and in another manor there was no one to give water to, because everyone was sick.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>t;/span></a>)
1230-00-00-Smolensk + (That year [[1230]] … That year [[1230]] there was an epidemic in Smolensk. Four mass graves<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> were created. 16,000 were buried in two, 7,000 in the third and 9,000 [bodies] in the fourth. This evil lasted for two years.evil lasted for two years.)
1386-00-00-Smolensk Sim + (That year [[1386]] … That year [[1386]] the plague was very severe<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> among the people of Smolensk.gt; among the people of Smolensk.)
1386-00-00-Smolensk + (That year [[1386]] … That year [[1386]] there was a great plague<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> in Smolensk.t;/a> in Smolensk.)
1230-00-00-Novgorod + (That year [1230] there was an epidemic in … That year [1230] there was an epidemic in Novgorod from famine. Some people killed their brothers and ate, and others ate the dead bodies, and others ate horses, and dogs, and cats, and others moss, and wych elm <a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> leaves. All this was for our sins. Because of the number of the dead, there was then no one to bury the dead. there was then no one to bury the dead.)
1297-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdal Rus + (That year [6806] <a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> there was an epidemic in cattle)
1417-00-00-Northen Rus + (That year ([[1417]] … That year ([[1417]]) there was a terrible epidemic among the people in Veliky Novgorod, and in Ladoga, and in Rus, and in Porkhov, and in Pskov, and in Torzhok, and in Tver, and in Dmitrov, and in their territories. And so great was the epidemic that the living could not handle burying the dead, and there were not enough healthy people to serve the sick, as one healthy person served dozens of sick people; and many manors were empty, and in others one or two people survived, and elsewhere one child. And the sickness was such in the people: as if a rogatina (bear spear kick) were hit behind the shoulders, or straight through the heart, or in the breast, or in the back, and when they became ill they began to cough up blood and burning a fire <a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>, and then they sweated and trembled, and went through every possible kind of human suffering; for the bubos were not all the same, one had one on his neck, another on his thighs, another near his sinuses, another under his cheek, or behind his shoulder, or under his armpit, or in other places. And lying in this sorrow, and with penance, and with oils, and even let in front of an angel, they passed away [died] from life; because with His love He sent [Him] His mercy and His torment.nd His torment.)
1463-00-00-Rus + (That year ([[1463]] … That year ([[1463]]), from the month of [[September]] to the [[Philip]] zagovenia<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>, many people died from blotchs.tchs.)
1309-00-00-Rus + (That year ([[1309]]) there was an epidemic among people and horses and among ranges of cattle; all the grain was eaten up by mice.)
1408-00-00-Rus + (That year ([[1408]] … That year ([[1408]]) the epidemic was among people in many lands, namely: [[Rzhevsk]] land, [[Mozhaisk]] land, [[Dmitrov|Dmitriyev]] land, [[Zvenigorod]] land, [[Pereyaslavl]] land, [[Vladimir|Volodymyr]] land, [[Yuryev]] land, [[Ryazan]] land, [[Torussk]] land, was also in other parts of [[Moscow]] territory.[[Moscow]] territory.)
1230-1231-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia? + (That year [1230] there was a famine throughout the land [which lasted] two years. And lots of people died.)
1321-00-00-Rus + (That year [1321] the epidemic was on people and on horses.)
1417-00-00-northern Rusia Sim + (That year [6925] there was a terrible plag … That year [6925] there was a terrible plague among the people in [[Novgorod]] the Great, and in [[Ladoga]], and in [[Russa]], and in [[Porkhov]], and in [[Pskov]], and in [[Torzhok]], and in [[Tver]], and in [[Dmitrov]], and in their estates; and then there was a great plague, so that the living were not able to bury the dead. The healthy should have served the sick, but one healthy person had to serve ten sick people. And many manors were empty, in one a man or two remained, and in another only a child. The disease progressed as follows in humans: first, as if struck with bear spear behind the shoulder blade or in front of the heart, in the chest and between the collarbones. And when he falls ill, he begins to spit blood and [as if] a burning fire, then he sweats, then he shivers, and this suffering spreads through all his joints. The swelling/blisters were not in the same [places], some on the neck, the other on the tendon, the other under the armpit, or under the cheekbone, or behind the shoulder blade and under the armpit, and in other places. And lying in this disease, after confession and [anointing] with [holy] oil, they took an angelic shape and departed from life. Thus [God] sent His mercy and [[punishment]] with love to people.[[punishment]] with love to people.)
1154-00-00-South Rusia + (That year [[1154]] Yuryi [Vladimirovich Dolgorukiy] went with the Rostovtsians and Suzdalianss, and with all the children, to Rusia, and there was a plague of horses among his warriors, such as had never happened before.)
1309-00-00-The whole Russian land + (That year [[1309]] there was a plague on people, horses and all cattle, and all the grain was eaten by [[mice]], and because of this the prices were high and the famine was great throughout the entire Rusian land.)
1408-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia + (That year [[1408]] … That year [[1408]], there was epidemic among people in many places, [they suffered from] plague, in the estates of [[Rzhevsk]], [[Mozhaisk]], [[Dmitrov]], [[Zvenigorod]], [[Pereyaslavl]], [[Vladimir]], [[Yuryev]], [[Ryazan]], [[Torussk]], and also in estate of [[Moscow]].[[Moscow]].)
1408-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia Sim + (That year [[1408]] … That year [[1408]], there was epidemic among people in many places, [they suffered from] plague, in the estates of [[Rzhevsk]], [[Mozhaisk]], [[Dmitrov]], [[Zvenigorod]], [[Pereyaslavl]], [[Vladimir]], [[Yuryev]], [[Ryazan]], [[Torussk]], and also elsewhere in estate of [[Moscow]].[[Moscow]].)
1348-06-15-Rimini + (That year, and the fifteenth of May. A gre … That year, and the fifteenth of May. A great mortality began in Arimino, and then in the countryside, and lasted until the first of December. And the two people died of three. And first the poor died, and then the other great ones, except that tyrants and great lords did not die. And this mortality was general in every country.is mortality was general in every country.)