[English translation]

Powder to make the memory good.
Take 1 dram each of caraway, anise, bishop's weed, celery, cumin, mountain mint, cardamon, Indian leaf, galingale, costmary, betony, fennel, marjoram, sweet basil, licorice, pennyroyal, pepper, lavender, parsley and hyssop and make everything into very fine powder, each one separately. Then incorporate them all well and use this powder in all your foods like a spice. But know that in the winter it is better than in the summer for the excess of phlegm. This powder was made by Emperor Fredrick. It is good for continual use by one who has lost his memory through some excessive humor. This powder is active against scotoma, dizziness, defective sight and hearing, and against apoplexy, gout and paralysis and mitigates pain from the kidney and lower parts.... 41
Amulet for bad memory.
Take 5 ounces of cistus gum, 3 drams of amber, 2 drams each of cloves and nutmeg, 1 dram of storax and 2 scruples of musk and make fine powder of all these things. Then mix with tragathanth gum melted in rose water and make a ball with a hole through the center and let it dry in the shade. Put it on the back or around the neck with a cord of gold or of silver. Know that this comforts the brain, the nerves and the spirit and it will bring a good fragrance to all your thoughts.
Very good and complete electuary for the memory.
Take 2 drams each of flowers of rosemary, of borage and of bugloss and the heart of a swallow and take 1/2 dram each of fine cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves and long pepper, 2 grains of musk and 1 ounce each of fine sugar, rose sugar and violet sugar. All these things should be finely pulverized and made into a mixture with one ounce of rose syrup. On an empty stomach take the amount of a hazel nut every morning. Take this electuary for the period of one month and it will give you a wonderful memory that will be maintained. Keep yourself from bad odors and use it in the wintertime to help you keep warm. By using it you will keep your memory perfect.

Another to maintain the memory.
Take a piece of the root of cyclamen or sow bread and chew it each day. This is the best thing for the memory.... 42
For one whose brain is disordered.
Take 2 handfuls of the leaves of cultivated celery and cook them in water. Make a poultice of this herb and put it as warm as one can stand on the head which should be shaved first. Put it on all over the head thickly and do it at least 2 or 3 times and it will help greatly. This is a tested method. In addition you should use this wine: take 1 ounce each of good wine and ginger and 2 ounces each of long pepper and galingale and 1/2 ounce each of cloves, cubeb and nutmeg. Everything should be made into fine powder. Put this powder, incorporated with a little of that wine, in a small linen sack and put it in a vessel with 7 lbs. of good wine and cover it well so it is not able to evaporate and boil it some. Then let it clear with the sack in it and use this wine to drink, but a little each time. This wine is also good in chills and for flatulence and you will be warmed and it will help you greatly.

Another for one whose brain is disordered.
Take seeds of rue and grind them finely. Drink them with sharp, that is sour, wine and soon you will recover the health of the brain.

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[Italian transcript]

Polvere per fare bona memoria.
Rx. carvi, anesi, ameos, apii, cimini, calamente, cardamomi, foglii, galangarum, balsamite, bertonice, maratri, maiorano, ozimi, liquiritie, pulegii, piperis, spice nardi, petroselini, ysopi, ana drama j, et di ogni cosa ne sia fata polvere sutilissima ogni una da per se. Poi le siano bene tutte incorporate et dela ditta polvere tu ne userai in tutte le tue vivande a modo de spicie. Ma sapi che la ‘nvernata sono migliori che nela stade per lo excesso dela flegma et questa polvere la feci fare Federico imperatore la quale la i e bona continuandola a chi avesse perso la memoria per qualche humore excessivo la quale e contra ala scotomia, ala vertigine et al difetto del vedere et del udire e contra ala giocciola e gotta et paralisia et mitiga il dolore dele rene et dele parte inferiore.
Pomo per la memoria inferma.
Rx. laudani onze v, ambre drame iij, gariofilorum, nucum muscatarum, ana drame ij, storacis drama j, muscho scropuli ij, et de tutte queste cose ne farai polvere sutila. Et poi impasta con draganti fusi in aqua roxa et fane una palla col buco inel mezo et lassela secare al ombra. Poi la parti a dosso overo al collo con cordone d’oro o d’argento. Sapi che questa ti conforta il cervello, li nervi e li spiriti et ti rendra uno bonissimo odore a tutte le memore.
Lattovario ala memoria, bonissimo e perfetto.
Rx. fiori di osmarino e di boragine e di buglossa, ana drame ij, e il core di una rondine e piglia cinamomo fino, noce moscate e macis, garofani e pepi longo, ana drama s, e muschio grani 2, zucaro fino e zucaro roxato e zucaro violato, ana onza j, et tutte le preditte cose siano spolverizate suttile et siano composte bene in forma di mistura con una onza di syropo roxato et ne piglierai ogni matina a digiuno quanto saria una nosella incominciando ditto lattovario per i spacio di un mese et ti fara una mirabil memoria et si mantera e ti guarda di cativi odori et per essere calido lo userai in tempo di inverno et exercitantolo la mantenerai perfetta.
Item a mantenere la memoria.
Torai uno pezo di radice di cilamina et la mastica ogni di, overo pan porcino, et questa e cosa optima per la memoria.
Chi a volto il cervello.
Rx. foglie di appio domestico m. 2 et falo cosere nel aqua. Poi piglia la ditta erba et fane uno impiastro et cosi caldo quanto puo patire mettilo insul capo qual sia prima raso e chel tengi tutto’l capo e chel sia grosso. Et fallo al manco 2 o 3 volte et molto li zovera per essere statto aprobato. E piu tu li farai usare questo vino: torai vino buono e zenzero, ana onza j, pepi longo, galanga, ana onze ij, garofali, cubebe, noce moschate, ana onza s, et ogni cosa sia fatto in polvere sutile et metti ditta polvere incorporata con quello poco vino in uno sachetto lino et mettilo in uno vaso dovi sia drento vino bono lb. 7, et coprilo bene chel non possa respirare et falo al quanto bolire. Poi lasselo schiarire et li lassa drento il sachetto et di questo vino tu ne usa a bere ma poco per volta, il quale vino e anche bono ali raffredati e ala ventosita, e starai caldo e molto ti zovera.
Item a chi a volto il cervello.
Torai semente di ruta et pestali sutile. Poi li beva con vino agro, cioe brusco, e presto ricupererai la sanita del cervello.