[English translation] treasure because no finer secrets of greater worth and value can be found in this world. We will tell some of the virtues of the first, second and third waters. Viz. 1. Note that the first and the second waters have almost the same virtues but the first is more potent and of that we will tell first. 2. If you put a little on a fresh wound, it will not need any other medication but it will be healed in 24 hours, as long as the wound is not fatal. 3. Another. If one has some old sore, wherever it is, or if it is a canker or abcess or lupus or on a retracted nerve or on a bone or in an old sore or lepra or noli me tangere , it should be washed thoroughly with these 2 waters, 2 times a day and in 15 days it will be cured.... 181 4. Another. If you will let a drop or a few drops fall on a carbuncle, in 3 hours or more the carbuncle will be destroyed and all poison will be gone. 5. Another. If anyone has sickness in the eyes, of whatever kind, by bathing the eyelids the tears will be dried as long as the eye is not destroyed. If a drop is put in the eye for 3 days, at the end of 3 to 9 days it will be cured and if it hurts a little that will not harm you. 6. Another. If a man has a stone in the bladder or in the kidneys or in the penis, he should drink one tablespoon of the water with half a glass of white wine or broth of red chick peas, but the water above is better alone, and in 2 hours or more the stone will be shattered, broken and splintered. Then you will urinate this in several little pieces and without any pain. 7. Another. If someone has hemorrhoids, bathe them 2 or 3 times a day and in 3 days or more you will cure it. 8. Another. Similarly, in sickness of the womb, the woman should drink 1 dram with a little chicken broth or good wine and she will be freed quickly. 9. Another. If someone is feeling pain of any kind or has fallen, bathe the painful place repeatedly and in 3 hours it will be relieved. Also it cures scabies and ringworm. 10. Another. If a nerve has been drawn or indurated or twisted, it should be bathed 3 or 4 times with the water and at once it will be relaxed even if it was harder than a rope. 11. Another. It is powerful in a discharge from the genitals in a man or a woman when it is drunk with water of betony or of plantain. 12. Another. It removes every venom from toads, spiders and scorpions. When several drops of the warm water are put on the puncture, it will soon be cured. 13. Another. If someone has eaten poison of any kind, he should drink as much of this water as he can and soon he will be cured, if the sick person can drink a large quantity and is not disturbed until the poison is quenched and destroyed. This has been tested. 14. Another. It cures scrofulas. By drinking it and bathing the openings of the sores with it, it soon cures them. This has been tested. 15. Another. For broken bones, bathing the injured place with it removes the bones from the flesh without injury or pain and strengthens the flesh. 16. Another. It removes any deafness and distress of the ears, by wetting a little cotton wool and putting it in the ears. It may be better to use a feather to drop this water in the ear. If you want to mitigate its strength, combine it with oil of bitter almonds or with oil of camomile and at once it will help you hear. 17. Another. It is powerful in arthritic pain, that is in arthritic gout that comes from cold. Wet a cloth and put it on the sore place. Do this several times and soon you will cure it. ---------- [Italian transcript] thesoro impero che in questa consiste magir dignita e virtu in di piu sottili secreti che mai al mondo si possa trovare. Et diremo parte dele virtu dela prima, la seconda et dela terza. Vz. 1. Nota che la prima et la seconda aqua a quasi una medema virtu, ma la prima e quella che vale et di quella prima noi diremo. 2. Et se tu ne meterai um poco sopra a una ferita fata di fresco, sapi che non gli accadera altro medicamento ma si rissanera in 24 ore purche la ferrita non sia mortale. 3. Item. Se alcuno avera qualche piagha vecchia e sia dove si voglia o sia cancro or fistula o lupa o a nervi retratti o a ossa o a piagha vechia o lepra ut noli me tangere et lavasi qual si voglia di queste 2 aque 2 volte al giorno e in 15 di sera guarito bene. 4. Item. Se tu ne getterai una goccia o piu goccie sopra a un carbone in 3 ore o piu el ditto carbone sera mortificato et ogni veleno sera morto. 5. Item. Se alcuna persona avera male ali occhii et sia qual si voglia infermita le lachrime rassuga bagnanado le palpebre di fora purche l’occhio non sia distrutto et se ne pongha una giocza inel occhio di 3 giorni, in 3 giorni insino ali 9 giorni et sera liberato et se um poco ti molestasse non dubitare che nulla non ti nocera. 6. Item. Se l’huomo avesse la pietra inela vissicha o nele rene o inela verga, ne beva uno chugiaro dela ditta aqua con mezo bichiere de vin bianco overo brodo de cieci rossi ma meglio e l’aqua sola sopra detta, et in 2 ore o piu la pietra sera infranta, ratto e spezata. Et poi la orinerai cosi rotta in piu pecetti et senza dolore alcuno. 7. Item. Se alcuno avera l’imoroide le bagna 2 o 3 volti al di et in 3 di o piu serai guarito. 8. Item. Similmente al male dela matrice, bevene la donna drama j con um poco di brodo di galina overo de vino optimo et sera disubito e presto liberata. 9. Item. Se alcuna persona si sentise dolore di qual sorte si voglia o per cadute, bagni spesso il loco del dolore et in 3 ore sera presto liberato, e piu cura la rogna e la tigna. 10. Item. Se un nervo fusse atratto o indurito overo torto, bagnesi 3 o 4 volte con la ditta aqua e subito si distendera se’l fusse piu duro che non ne una fune. 11. Item. Vale ala scorentia del semme a homo o donna, bevto con aqua di bertonicha o di piantagine. 12. Item. Destruge ogni veleno di rospo, de ragni e de scorpioni, ponendo al quante goccie dela ditta aqua che la sia calda sopra ala pontura e presto guarira. 13. Item. Se alcuno avesse mangiato veleno et sia di che sorte si voglia, bevendo dela ditta aqua quanto puo e presto et sera liberato con questo che lo infermo ne beva quella bona quantita che puo e senza molestia sina a tanto chel veleno sia extinto e morto e questo egli e statto aprobato. 14. Item. Libera le scrophole, bevendone et bagnandone inele buche dele piaghe presto le guarisse. E de probata. 15. Item. Alli ossi rotto bagnando il loco offeso li cava dela carne senza offesa o dolore et conforta la carne. 16. Item. Leva ogni sordita e pasione dele orecchie, bagnando um poco di bambaso e ponerlo nele orechie. Et meglio sarebe con una penna giocciarli inel orecchia l’aqua. Et se tu li vorai temperare il suo ardore compagnelo con olio di mandole amare overo con olio di camomilla e presto ti zovera al farti hodire. 17. Item. Vale a dolori artetici, cioe ale gotte artetiche che procedano da causa frigida, bagnando un panno et ponendolo sopra al male piu e piu volte questo lo farai e presto guarirai.