Prognostication for the Year 1482

To the most Reverend father in Christ and lord, Lord Stefano de Nardinis, most worthy Cardinal priest of the Holy Church of Saint Mary in Trastevere, commonly called of Milan, Julianus de Blancis, Roman citizen and canon of the aforementioned church, a faithful servant of your Reverend Lordship, wishes eternal salvation.

Most Reverend father and lord, my singular and most excellent lord. From the beginning of the world, the magnitude of the uncreated goodness of God has wisely instituted the obligation of perseverance for all of its nature: angelic, celestial, and human. The eloquence of my stuttering tongue is not able to express or say with how many praises or with what proclamations this obligation ought to be preached and extolled. This is the very obligation by which the angels of heaven, the earth, the elements, and other creatures testify in their own way that God is and exists, saying as the prophet says: "Know that the Lord himself is God; he made us and not we ourselves." And that of the Apostle: "The invisible things of God are understood by those things which are made." This is the obligation by which all men, as many as have been and will be, have shone, are shining, and will shine, being learned in whatever science, by whose doctrine the world rejoices and is illuminated. This is the obligation of perseverance by which the only-begotten Son of God, for our salvation, truly made man in the bridal chamber of the Virgin, most perfectly completed the will of the Father, full of charity. Furthermore, through such an obligation, all good angels, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and evangelists, martyrs, confessors, virgins, and widows, and all the saints who have been and will be, have obtained and will obtain the crown of supreme glory. And to conclude briefly, if this obligation were removed from this valley of our tears, all arts, all virtues, and all sciences would without doubt perish. Therefore, vehemently drawn to this virtue, since by the grace of God I, a human being, began to know the art of astrology somewhat according to the doctors, I will gladly exercise the art itself with every effort, with the virtue of companionship—especially humility, faith, hope, and ardent charity. This study will always be for the praise of God, of heaven and earth, of our most holy Lord Pope Sixtus, for the awareness and information of the true and legitimate ruler of the whole militant Church, and for the joy and gladness of your Reverend Lordship, who always strives to favor and love virtuous and learned men. Finally, because where the deed is needed, words do not suffice, I shall clearly reveal the future of the present year, 1482, as I have been accustomed to do in past years, imitating the truthful doctors of the art of astrology, with the patronage of our Redeemer and his most holy Mother.

The entry of the greatest luminary into the image of the vernal equinox, Aries, will therefore be in the year of our Lord 1482, on the tenth day of the month of March, after midday at twenty-two hours, eight minutes, and forty-eight seconds, not equalized; but when equalized, on such a day at the predicted hour, at sixteen minutes and fifty-six seconds, which will be Monday, the hour of Mars, one hour before midday with almost fifty-two minutes in our horizon of the illustrious city of Rome, with the twenty-eighth degree of Gemini almost ascending. The opposition of the luminaries preceding the aforementioned entry of the sun into Aries will be on the fourth day of March, after sunset, at nineteen hours and thirty minutes, which will be Tuesday, the hour of Jupiter, in the Roman horizon, with the second degree of Leo ascending. And because the ascendant of the mundane year is a common sign, therefore, according to the opinions of the wise, the revolutions of all other quarters are not necessary, but this year will be bipartite, namely in the two equinoctial points. Wherefore I shall add the entry of the sun into the autumnal equinox, namely in the sign of Libra, which will be in the same year on the twelfth day of the month of September, after midday at twenty-two hours and forty minutes, which will be Saturday, the hour of Venus, in the Roman horizon, equalized, with the twenty-ninth degree of Scorpio almost ascending. The conjunction indeed preceding the aforementioned entry of the sun into Libra was in the aforementioned year on the twelfth of September, after sunset, at ten hours and almost five minutes, which will be Thursday, the hour of Mars, with the sixth degree of Virgo almost ascending. And it is to be noted that he who wishes to judge this year canonically must look not only at the entry of the sun into those two equinoctial points as has been said, and at the opposition and conjunction preceding those entries, and at the eclipse of the sun to happen in the present year, but one must remember some past constellations. And especially to remember the eclipse of the sun made in the past year, 1481, on the twenty-eighth of May, in the sixteenth degree of Gemini. And of the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars made in the month of August, on the thirteenth, in the twenty-first degree of Leo. Similarly, to remember the conjunction of the evils, Saturn and Mars, made on the seventeenth day of November, in the twenty-second degree of Libra incomplete, and this is because all the aforementioned constellations will sprout their effects more in this year. Indeed, I will distinguish the judgments of this monster in twenty-one chapters, all of which must be read from beginning to end so that they may be understood more perfectly.

Decorative initials appear at the beginning of the text, the second paragraph, and the paragraphs starting "Dac igitur" and "Cerit ergo." A stamp of the Royal Library of Munich is in the bottom right corner.