Schedel, Hartmann: Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Page of text (folio CCXXXv) describing years 1337 to 1335, with a seven-line annotation (cropped) in a 17th-century hand relating to an outbreak of plague in the year 1350 “… 1350 expressit quidem versiculo nimis incondito. Rastrum, dreyvurstum, spitlongum, tunc mala pestis …” taken from Magnus Matthias, Regum Daniae series (printed in Holger Rordam, Monumenta Historiae Danicae: Historiske Kildeskrifter (Kjøbenhavn: 1887) 132). Sp Coll Euing BD9-a.2.

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