[English translation]

Pills for the head, after meals.
Take 2 drams of
giera
dough with mushrooms and 1 dram of plain dough and mix them together with water of fennel and make 9 pills. Then take 3 of them at a time and it will make you go very easily.... 43
To make hair on the head, beard or hair on the skin regrow when it has fallen out through sickness.
Take raw honey and urine of a young child of 5 to 8 years, each the same amount, and put therein some bees, that is roasted bees, and make fine powder of it and incorporate it with ordinary oil and mix everything together. Then rub the bald place on the head or beard or skin and, by continuing it for a few days, the hair will grow shining and beautiful as before. This mixture should be made fresh, a little at a time, at least every 2 or 3 days because of the putrefaction that occurs from the urine. It will work for you very well.

Another to make hair and beard grow.
Take as much linseed as you want and toast it in a frying pan and make fine powder and also some roasted bees and use as much of one powder as the other and incorporate it with oil of lizard, that is the green lizard, in the form of a soft unguent. Then rub the bald spot carefully in the morning and evening and soon the hair will grow on the head, beard or skin. Powder of roasted frogs works the same way. First rub with the oil described above and then put on the powder like a spice and hair will grow quickly and in large amounts. It has been tested.

Another to make the hair or beard grow long.
When you make lye for washing your head, take ashes of grapevine and no other ashes and 1 handful each of the herb agrimony, climbing ivy and maidenhair fern and boil them all together until it reduces 1/3. Then filter the lye and save it and with this wash your head 2 times a week and soon you will see the wonderful result.
To make hair beautiful in several ways.
Take 5 lb. of white honey and distill it in a glass still with pebbles, that is large and well-washed sand, mixed with the honey and put this in a distilling flask just as it is, with a lively fire so that it distills oil. Then take this oil and when you have dried the head, rub the hair carefully. By continuing this, the hair will become beautiful, I say most beautiful.

Another to make beautiful hair.
Take oil of poppy and ox gall, each the same amount, and a little white wine and incorporate them as a liquid unguent and when you have dried the head well, rub the hair with this carefully. Then stay in the sun and the hair will become most beautiful.

Another to make the hair beautiful.
Take 1/2 dram of oriental saffron and the yolks of 8 cooked eggs ground in a mortar. Add the saffron in very fine powder and enough white honey to combine everything in the form of a liquid unguent. Then when you are in the sun, oil the hair and rub it well and when combing the hair first smear the comb with oil of bitter almonds. Continue this for a month, at least 2 or 3 times a week, and if you do it repeatedly your hair soon will become the color of gold and as fine as you would like it.

Another to make the hair beautiful.
Take roots of endive and cook them with lye. Then when they are cooked, remove them and strain them. Then put this to boil again and put in cumin and crushed licorice, the amounts at your discretion, and boil it a while. Then strain it and with this wash your head 2 times a week and when it is dry sprinkle it with yellow sulfur, wrapping up the hair in a cover so you will not smell the odor. By doing this several times the hair will become the color of gold, pure and shining in a way that will please you. This secret is used by the ladies of Genoa and it is seen there.

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[Italian transcript]

Pillore per il capo dopoi cena.
Rx. pasta di giera con agarico, ana drame ij, pasta sine quibus drama j et riformali con aqua di finochio e farai 9 pillore. Poi ne torai 3 per volta et ti fara andare molto suavamente.
Capelli, barba o peli, farli rinassere quando fussino caduti per infirmita.
Rx. del mele crudo e orina di fanciullo di 5 o 8 anni, ana, et metivi drento dele pecchie, cioe ape brusate, e fattone polvere suttila et incorporata con olio comune et meti ogni cosa insieme. Poi ti ongi il loco dipelato, de capelli o barba o peli et continuandolo in breve giorni nasserano politi e belli como de prima et questo composicione vol essere fatta frescha pocha per volta, al manco ogni 2 o 3 di, arispetto ala putrefacione per amor del orina, et ti riussira verissima.
Item a fare cressere capelli e barba.
Torai somenta di lino quanta tu voi et fala brusare in un tegame et fane polvere sutila et dele ape brusate e fatte in polvere tanto del uno quanto del altro et le incorpora con olio de ramaro, cioe lusertoni verdi, in modo de unguento tenero. Poi ti ongi il loco dipelato sutilmente matina e sera e presto nasserano li capelli, barba o peli. Et medesimamente la polvere dele rane brusate et ongi prima con l’olio sopra ditto. Poi li metti sopra dela ditta polvere in modo di specie et nasserano presto e in gran quantita. E di provata.
Item a farli venire longhi li capelli o barba.
Torai quando farai la tua lissia per lavarti il capo cenere de vite e non altra cenere et erba agrimonia e ellera arborea e capel venere, ana m. uno, e tutte bolano insieme tanto che calino il terzo. Poi cola la ditta lissia et serbela et con quella ti lava il capo 2 volte la settimana et in breve vedrai lo effetto mirabilmente.
A fare belli li capelli in piu modi.
Rx. mele bianco lb. v et fallo stillare al lambico di vetro con quelli sassolini, cioe di rena grossa e ben lavata, e incorporate col ditto mele et mettilo inela boza conzo come va et dali foco e galiardo foco accio che ne destilla olio. Poi torai el ditto olio quando tu arai sutto il capo ongiti li capelli sutilmente et continuandolo vera li capelli belli, dico belitissimi.
Item a fare belli capelli.
Torai olio di papavero e fele di buo, ana, et uno poco di vino bianco et incorpora a modo di unguento liquido et quando averai ben sutto il capo, fregati con esso li capelli sutilmente, stando pure al sole et verano belitissimi.
Item a fare beli li capelli.
Torai zafferano orientale drama s et rossumi d’ovo cotti no. 8. Pesti in mortaio e metteli il zafferano che sia in polvere sutilissimo et tanto mele biancho che distemperi ogni cosa a modo di unguento liquido. Poi quando stai al sole ongeti li capelli e strapizandoli bene et petinandoti il capo et prima ongi il petine con olio di mandole amare et questo lo continuerai per un mese al manco 2 o 3 volte ala setimana et se piu spesso lo farai, verano di color d’oro e suttili e verano presto e como tu vorai.
Item a fare beli li capelli.
Torai radice di endiva et le cosi con la lissia. Poi che la sera cotta, levela et colela. Poi la rimetti a bolire et mettivi drento comino e rigolicia amacata a tua discretione et fala bolire al quanto. Poi la coli et con essa ti lava il capo 2 volte ala setti[ma]na et quando seranno assutti li perfuma con solfero giallo, serrando li capelli in una casetta che tu non sentirai l’odore. Et facendo questo piu volte vera li capelli di colore d’oro chiari e lustranti in modo che ti piaserano, et questo secreto l’usa le gentildonne genovese, e di veduta.