The Black Death

• Annales Matseenses, Mon. Germ. Hist., IX.

• Henrici de Hervordia, ed. Potthast, Göttingen, 1859.

• Continuatio Novimontensis, Mon. Germ. Hist., IX, p. 675.

• Heinrici Rebdorfensis Annales Imperatorum, F.R.G., Vol. IV, pp. 532–8.

British Isles

• Robert of Avesbury, Continuatio Chronicarum de Gestis Mirabilibus Regis Ed. III., ed. E. M. Thompson, R.S. 93.

• Thomas Walsingham, Historia Anglicana, ed. H. Riley, R.S. 28.

• Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, ed. J.R. Lumby, R.S. 41, VIII.

• Eulogium (Historiarum sive Temporis), ed. F. Haydon, R.S. 9, III.

• John Capgrave, The Chronicle of England, ed. F. Hingeston, R.S. 1.

• Chronicon Henrici Knighton, ed. J. Lumby, R.S. 92, II.

• Gesta Edwardi de Carnavan, Auctori Canonico Bridlingtoniensi cum Continuatione, ed. W. Stubbs, R.S. 76, II.

• Chronicon Galfridi Le Baker de Swynebroke, ed. E. M. Thompson, Oxford, 1889.

• Chronicon Johannis de Reading, ed. J. Tait, Manchester, 1914.

• Willelmi de Dene, Historia Rossensis, Wharton, Anglia Sacra, Vol. I, p. 356; cf. B. Mus. Cotton M. S., Faust B. V, p. 96.

• Stephen Birchington, Vitae Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium, Wharton, Anglia Sacra, Vol. 1, p.1.

• ‘A Fourteenth Century Chronicle from the Grey Friars at Lynn’, ed. A. Gransen, Eng. Hist Rev., Vol. LXXII 1957, p. 270.

• Chronica Monasterii de Melsa, R.S. 43, III.

• Historical Papers from Northern Registers, ed. J. Raine, R.S. 61.

• Eynsham Cartulary, ed. H. E. Salter, Ox. Hist. Soc, Oxford, 1907–8.

• Chronicle of Louth Park, line. Rec. Soc, 1891.

• John Clyn, Annalium Hiberniae Chronicon, ed. R. Butler, Irish Arch. Soc., Dublin, 1849.

• Chronicle of John of Fordun, ed. W. F. Skene, Edinburgh, 1872.

• Cronykil of Andrew of Wyntoun, ed. D. Laing, Edinburgh, 1872.

• Book of Pluscarden, ed. F. J. Skene, Edinburgh, 1880.

Other Countries

• Continuatio Chronici Guillelmi de Nangiaco, Soc. de L’Histoire de France, II, 1844, p. 211.

• Chronicon Pragense, ed. Loserth, Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Vol. I.

• Breve Chronicon Clerici Anonymi, De Smet, Recueil des Chroniques de Flandres, Vol. III, p. 5.

• Chronicon Majus Aegidii Li Muisis, De Smet, ibid, Vol. II, p. 110.

• C. S. Bartsocas, ‘Two 14th Century Greek Descriptions of the Black Death (Nicephoros Gregoras and Emperor John Cantacuzenos)’, Journ. Hist. Med., Vol. XXI, 1966, No. 4, p.394.

Finally there are the plague tractates left by the doctors and savants of the period. Almost all those listed below were analysed by Anna Campbell in her invaluable study The Black Death and Men of Learning.

• Master Jacme d’Agramont, Sudhoff, Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin, XVII, (1925), 120–21.

• (Klebs, A. C., ‘A Catalan Plague Tract of April 24, 1348’, 6ème Congrès International d’Histoire de la Médecine, Anvers, 1929, pp. 229–32.)

• Gentile da Foligno, Sudhoff, Archiv V (1913), 83–6, 332–7. A. Philippe, Histoire de la Peste Noire, (Paris, 1853) contains another text

• John of Penna, Sudhoff, Archiv V (1913), 341–8, and Archiv XVI, (1924) pp.162–7.

• Paris Faculty of the Colleges of Medicine, (Compendium de Epydimia); Brit. Mus. Harl., 3,050, (XVII), p. 66 recto (b) to p. 68 verso (b); H. E. Rebouis, Étude historique et critique sur la peste, Paris, 1888. (D. W. Singer, ‘Some Plague Tractates’, Proc. Roy. Soc. Med., Vol. IX, Pt. 2, p. 159.)

• Master Albert, Sudhoff, Archiv VI, 316–17.

• Alfonso de Cordoba, Sudhoff, Archiv III, 224–6.

• Abū Ja’far Ahmad Ibn ’Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn ’Ali Ibn Khātimah (referred to generally as Ibn Khātimah). Translated into German in Sudhoff, Archiv XIX (1927), by Taha Dinānah, pp.27–81.

• John Hake of Göttingen, Sudhoff, Archiv V, 37–8.

• The Five Doctors of Strasbourg (Treasure of Wisdom and of Art), Sudhoff, Archiv XVI (1924).

• (E. Wickersheimer, ‘La Peste Noire à Strasbourg et le regime des cinq médecins strasbourgeois’, 3ème Congrès International d’Histoire de la Médecine, Antwerp, 1923, pp.54–60.)