[English translation] Powder against indigestion from coldness of the stomach. Take 2 drams each of galingale, cassia wood, rhubarb, zedoary, lavender and willow gum and 1 dram each of cinnamon, ginger and cumin and 1 ounce of sugar and make a powder. Another powder for the stomach and it is a cure. Take 1 ounce of white tartar, ½ ounce of turbith gum, 1 ½ drams each of choice cinnamon and cloves, 1 scruple of prepared scammony and an appropriate amount of white sugar. Note that one does not take more of this powder than 1 or 1 ½ drams with broth of red chick peas cooked without oil and without salt or cooked in chicken broth. Take this with care. For those who cannot retain food. Take 2 parts of juice of fennel and 3 parts of honey and boil until it is thickened and give it to the sick person to drink in the morning and evening and he will be cured. To retain food, as above. Take wormwood and grind it with its stems and fry them in a frying pan with olive oil and with this warm anoint from the stomach all the way to the femur and tibia. Thereafter one should rest. Do this two or three times. Another for catarrh and cough of any kind. Take hyssop and dry the leaves in the sun and then make powder and eat this in the morning or drink it with wine or water while fasting up to the tierce. In this way you will be helped.... 48 Another for cough. Take 1 lb. of juice of red cabbage and boil it and skim it and take ½ lb. of skimmed and strained honey and put everything together to boil and put in 1 dram of saffron and 1 dram of tragacanth gum and boil all together until the juice is consumed. The amount of a bean is taken on an empty stomach and it should be allowed to melt in the mouth. Syrup for catarrh. Take 6 ounces of rose honey, 1 handful of dried hyssop and one nutmeg. First boil the hyssop with the nut in an amphora full of water and boil away a third part of the water. Then strain this water and take again about as much rose honey and boil again. Every morning take one cyathus, warmed.... 49 Most perfect oil for the stomach. Take 1 handful each of fine mint, fine marjoram, young thyme, young basil and sage and the same amount each of nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, mastic, cubeb, mace, galingale, cardamon and grains of paradise or, in place of them, sweet spices may be taken. Put everything in a pot and cook it on a bain marie. For stricture in the chest. Take 3 or 4 roots of fennel and as much parsley and a good fistful of clean barley and boil all these things until they are cooked and drink it when you go to sleep and it will help you greatly. For one who is not able to keep food on the stomach. Take 2 ounces of anise and 1 ounce each of fennel and caraway and boil them together. Early in the morning drink a spoonful and it will help you greatly. Best electuary for the stomach. Take the same amount each of gentian, cedar bark, laurel berries and nettle seeds. Put everything together and confect it with honey or sugar and make an electuary. Take a little in the morning and evening and it will give you a very good stomach. It has been tested. To stop vomiting. Take wormwood with vinegar and make a poultice and put it warm on the top of the stomach and it will help you greatly. ---------- [Italian transcript] Pulvis contra indigestionem ex frigiditate stomaci. Rx. galange, cassie lignee, reubarbari, zedovarie, spice, salis geme, ana drame ij, cinamomi, zinziberis, ziminis, ana drama j, et zucharum onza j, et fiat pulvis. Item pulvis per stomaco et est medecinalis. Rx. tartari albi onza j, turbit gumosi onza s, cinamomi electi, garofilorum, ana drame js, scamonee preparate scropulo j, zuchari albi ad pondus omnium. Nota che di questa polvere non se ne tole piu de drama j ut una e ½ cum brodo di ciceris rossi cotti senza olio e senza sale ut cotti in brodo di polli e cum guardia. Ad illos qui non posunt retinere cibum. Rx. sucum feniculi partes duas et tertiam partem mellis et fac bulire donec inspisetur et da infirma bibere de mane et sero et liberabitur. Pro retinendo cibo ut supra. Rx. abscintium et tere cum stipitibus suis et tole oleum olive et frige simul in sartagine et de eo colido sibi ventrem innungant usquem ad femur et tibias, potea requiescat et hoc faciat bis ut ter. Item ad catarrum et tosse d’ogni sorte. Rx. ysopum et desicha foglia ad solem et postea facias pulverem et comede in mane aut bibe cum vino ut acqua et ieiuna usque ad tertiam et sic faciendo liberaberis. Item ad tussim. Rx. lb. j de suco di cavoli rose et falo bolire e spumalo e torai mele lb. ½ spumato e colato et incorpora et metti ogni cosa insieme a bolire et meteli drento zaferano drama j, e goma di draganti drama j, et fa bolire omnia simul usque ad consumptionem suci et di questo se ne piglia tanto quanto saria una fava a ieiuno stomaco et si lassa liquefare in bocha a posta sua. Syrupus per catharo. Rx. mellis rosati onze vj, ysopi sici m. uno, nucis moscate no. j. Primo fac bulire ipsum cum nuce in amphora plena acqua et fac consumare tertiam partem acque. Postea colabis dictam acquam deinde pones iterum a dignem cum melle rosato et quantum unum fac bulire et sic omne mane sumas ciatum unum calefactum. Oleum perfetissimo per stomaco. Rx.menta fina, magiorana fina, serpillo gentile, basilico gentile, salvia, ana m. uno, nucis muschate, cinamomi, zinziberis, garofilorum, masticis, cubebe, macis, galange, cardamomi, grana paradisi, ana, aut loco istarum ponantur specie dolce, et ogni cosa sia posto in una inchistara et fiat ad balneum marie. A strettura di petto. Rx. 3 o 4 radice di finochio et altre tanto di predisemino e uno bon pugno di orzo netto et tutte queste cose farai bolire tanto che siano cotte et ne bevi quando vai a dormire e molto ti zovera. A chi non potesse tenere il cibo inelo stomaco. Rx. anesi onze ij, finochio, carvi, ana onza j et fa bolire insieme et ne beverai la matina per tempo uno chugiaro et molto ti zovera. Ellettuario optimo per lo stomaco. Rx. gentiana, scorze di cedri, bacche di lauro, seme di orticha, ana, et poni ogni cosa insieme et confetta in mele ut con zucharo et fiat elettuarium et ne piglierai matina e sera uno poco e ti fara bonissimo stomaco. E di probato. A stringere il vomito. Rx.ascenzo insieme con aceto et fa impiastro et mettilo sopra alla bocha delo stomaco caldo et molto li zovera.