Note 206 — Chapter II · ORKHAN A NEW NATION IS FORMED AND COMES INTO CONTACT WITH THE WESTERN WORLD
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MS. Vatican 2040, cited by Muralt, ii. 618: Petrarch, Epp. fam. vii. 7. For historical and medical importance of the black death, see Hecker, Der schwarze Tod im 14ten Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1832). MSS. Bibl. Nat., Paris, fonds latin 8369-70, contain an interesting contemporary account, mostly in hexameter verse, by Symon de Cavino, a Paris physician.