1498

In 1498, a total of 2 epidemic events are known so far. It is a year. See also time and timelines.

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Page	DateStart date of the disease.	SummarySummary of the disease event	OriginalOriginal text	TranslationEnglish translation of the text	ReferenceReference(s) to literature	Reference translationReference(s) to the translation
1498-06-06-Metz	6 June 1498 JL	A procession is organized in Metz to prevent the city against an epidemic of rubeola and properieulle (?). Mortality among children and adults.	Item, le mercerdy des festes de la Pentecotte, qui fut le VIe jour de jung, on fit une procession générale [...] en priant Dieu que voloit garder les biens de la terre, et garder la cité et le pays de guerre, et les corps humains de pestillence. Car tous les einffans devenoient mallades et de rougerieulle et de la propérieulle, et en mouroit beaucop, et morut des grans gens aussy.	On Wenesday after the Pentecost, the 6th of June, was held a procession [...] praying God to keep safe the agricultural goods, to prevent the country of the war, and human bodies of pestilence. Every children became actually sick with 'rougerieulle' and 'properieulle', and a lot of them died, as did some adult too.	Journal de Jean Aubrion, p. 405	Translation by Thomas Labbé
1498-09-28-Meissen	28 September 1498 JL	Plague-dispensation clauses in the statutes of Meissen's cathedral chapter	Si vero per unam aut duas noctes se absentaverit, tunc denuo et a novo suam residentiam incipere tenebitur... nisi tempore pestilentiae, quo tempore capitulum sibi dispensationem reservavit [...] Reservamus tamen nobis dispensandi potestatem, ut tempore pestis talis canonicus possit se ad aliam transferre universitatem	If he [a canon] should absent himself for one or two nights, then he shall be obliged to begin his residence anew and afresh... unless it is a time of pestilence, in which case the chapter reserves the right to grant him dispensation [...] We nevertheless reserve to ourselves the power to grant dispensation, so that in time of plague such a canon may transfer himself to another university	UB Meissen 1864-67, vol. 3, p. 307, No. 1309.	Claude Sonnet 5

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