Prognostication for Leipzig 1485

darkness, which will be on the sixteenth day of the month of March in the evening. Gerdauð? and its total bleaching will be quite precise, appearing four hours after midday and lasting about two hours from beginning to end. But what such an ecclipsis eclipse signifies will be said in other places.

The fourth word regarding death and the pestilence: This year, many cities will not be safe from death. And although they will be uncertain of it in some places, the effect of the bleaching or eclipse of the sun will bring much evil. Death will occur in many places from hot causes, and especially after the sunset and midnight. And the lands toward the noon the south must be somewhat concerned, and especially out of England, Armenia, Flanders, Lombardy, the Turkish/Italian lands, Apulia, Sicily, some parts of France, Ireland, Portugal, and Hispania toward Saint James Santiago de Compostela. Some cities in Bohemia, Silesia, and Meissen, fortresses and watery cities, and especially those cities where it has not died before, may look out for themselves and take care. And where it has died before, it will die again around Lent or shortly thereafter, and in many places in the summer, starting around St. Margaret's Day.

The fifth word regarding some diseases of the people: Various diseases will occur from cold causes, since much excessive moisture will be in the human body. From this, colds, gout, consumption, cough, and the like will develop in many people, and in the intestines, wüden? possibly ulcers or sores, and whatever the people eat, they will vomit. Women will suffer much pain in the body, distress in their hearts, stupidity, melancholy, an excess of phlegm, and all the same will affect those who perceive it at the sunrise, sunset, and noon.

The sixth word regarding peace and strife: This year, many wars and disturbances will happen. And since the planet Mars rules, heavy wars will be stirred, killings, and bloodshed. Therefore, Albumazar says: when Mars is in the human sign, it signifies much strife and war, uprising against the highest, and kings and princes will be pressured by their subjects, through which they will turn to other