Sunday, April 9, 2023

1578 Plague Book

Found this in my bookmarks, with the ominous date of 2020, and thought it would be fun to share: instructions from Elizabeth I's government about controlling the spread of Plague. This book, in the library of the University of Virginia, is currently thought to have been printed in 1578 or 1579.

  
Title page from the Plague Book, c.1578.

I may need to think of a way to work this into street bit for Faire...

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