ABSTRACT
A comet appeared in a star in the northern hemisphere, the which was visible in all the regions of India and in Portugal. And it appeared almost for the space of fifteen days, likewise having been seen in China. And it appeared in the same year at almost exactly the time when the above-said things happened. The people hath besides the ignorances, a filthy abomination, which is that they are so given to the accursed sin of unnatural vice, which is in no wise reproved among them. It seemeth that it gave a sign of the great punishment which God inflicted on the Chinas. It might well be that the sign was universal to all the world, and that it signifieth the birth of Antichrist; for the world showeth great signs of ending, and the scriptures in great part show that they are drawing nigh to being fulfilled.
