Prognostication for the Year 1500

They will feel infirmities. Let them fear prisons and suspensions; they will also feel damage from their enemies. Maximilian, the Roman Emperor, should also fear this image so located, since this year is not secure for his serenity regarding adverse health and also from enemies, and he will feel controversy and enmity from a great and religious man, and they will fight against each other. It will make the winter cold beyond measure, with snows, waters, and northern winds.

The image of Libra located in the ascendant renders the spring dark and obscure from hour to hour; very many winds will blow in it, there will be little rain, but cold and drought. Let places subject to the same image fear infirmities and plague, such as Piacenza, Vicenza, Bergamo, and according to some, Mantua, and most especially in the summer and autumn, when Venus, the lady of Libra, is damned and scorched by Mars, and such an image is made unfortunate by Mars in the house of languor and infirmity. Whence it will cause infirmities from blood and veins, wounds, scabies, and headaches; truly, they will feel the greater part of this year to be very unhappy, being infested by infirmities and contrarieties. Let the most illustrious lords, Ludovico, Duke of Milan, and the Marquis of Mantua, also be cautious and solicitous to avoid these dangers. They will certainly not pass this year without war and adversities. For the Sun and Mars, conjoined in Libra and in Virgo, both in the figure of opposition preceding the entrance into Libra and in the entrance itself, show slaughters and the suspension of thieves, most especially in these places and also in the eastern parts. Mars, also under the rays of the Sun and in a mutable sign, causes durability in evil, namely in disputes, war, and strife; war or strife will be caused on account of customs and frauds and covered and concealed things, and they will endure until it becomes eastern. Whence, from the aforementioned, it is to be judged that it is not the lot of this year to pass without suspicion of plague and varied infirmities.

Handwritten marginalia in Latin, likely a summary of the text: War on account of customs and frauds and false judgments. B