Gabriel de Mussis

Gabriel de Mussis was a notary from Piacenza, Italy, who gave a vivid account of the start of the Black Death in the Black Sea city of Kaffa and its spread to Sicily and Piacenza. His account in Latin, entitled Istoria de Morbo sive Mortalitate quae fuit Anno Dni MCCCXLVIII, is preserved in a manuscript in the library of the University of Wroclaw.