AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NUREMBERG, 
ADOPTED IN THE YEAR 1562. 
E. K. J. H. VOSS. 
The following is offered here, aside from its linguistic value, 
as a contribution to the study of city government and sanitary 
conditions in one of the foremost German cities in the latter 
half of the sixteenth century, at a time when Europe was swept 
once more by that terrible scourge, the Black Death. 
The original is in the library at Wolfenbuettel. Eor the 
translation I am indebted to Miss Haffner, the present holder 
of the F. W. Allis Graduate Scholarship in German philology. 
Of the city ordinances of Nuremberg up to the year 1478 
we have an excellent collection in the Bibliothek des Literari- 
schen Vereins in Stuttgart, volume 63. (Numberger Poli- 
zeiordnungen aus dem 13. bis 15. Jahrhundert, hrg. von Jo¬ 
seph Baader, Stuttgart, 1861.) 
