[English translation] One-half ounce each of cloves, incense and mastic, 1 dram of saffron, 1 ounce of laurel berries and 3 ounces of clean wax. Cut up the wax and put it in last with everything well incorporated. Stir until it is cold so that the powder does not go all in one place and it will be the best, well-made and perfect unguent. Save it in a bottle for your needs for all of the above infirmities. When you wish to use the above unguent for sciatica, cold gout, nerves, eschars, sickness in pregnancy, kidney pain and all these other pains, use it cold and not hot and you will see a wonderful result. Use the ointment repeatedly. Another. When you want to treat the spleen, make it very warm and put on warm cloths. Do this only in the evening. Be careful to avoid all adverse things and you will be cured. Another. When you want to treat pains, make the unguent very warm and rub the body with very warm cloths. Do this several times and soon the pains will cease. Another. When you want to treat quartan fever, make the unguent very warm and rub only the edge of the kidney. Cover yourself well in bed and do this 3 or 4 times before the fever comes and you will be cured quickly. Eat some rosemary often and eat good meals and you will see an excellent result in all of the above infirmities when the unguent is made as is described above. It has been tested in all the above infirmities and it has cured almost all. Oil of sage flowers for swelling from cold gout of the elbow, hand and knee. Take the oldest olive oil that you can find. Then take a bottle or curet and make it more than half full or full of flowers of sage gathered in the full moon. Fill it with the oil and let it stay in the sun for 8 days, well covered. Then boil it on a bain marie for a half hour and return it to the sun for a month or more and it will be made. With this oil, very warm, rub all the cold pains caused by cold humors and especially in cold gout. Put it on all the joints and put on a very warm stupe of hemp or unwashed wool and on that another cloth and bind it well. Do this 2 times a day and soon the pain from bad coldness will cease. Many persons have tested this remedy and have been cured, by God's grace, through continuing it. To cure arthritic pains or gouty arthritis. Take the herb called a rteticha which has leaves as long as a large palm and straight like the onion but slimmer or like chives and which grows wild in the mountains. When you want to cure gouty arthritis, go before the infirm one and ask if he wants to be cured of the gout. If he says yes, tell him to say 5 Pater Noster with 5 Ave Maria in reverence to the 5 wounds of Jesus Christ. You should collect 9 leaves of the herb arteticha and show them to the sick one. Begin to medicate the first time on a Friday during the waning moon. The sequence is to say the prayer written below 9 times for 9 mornings and the sick one will say one Pater Noster with the Ave Maria each time that you will say the prayer. Then after you have said it, cut the herb up finely and take a fresh egg and incorporate them together and cook them in a frying pan in the form of a pancake without oil and without any other things. Make 9 morsels of it and give it to the sick one to eat and with each morsel he should say a Pater Noster with the Ave Maria. On the second morning do the same with 8 leaves and read the prayer 8 times and he will say 8 Pater Noster with 8 Ave Maria. Do this on the third morning with 7 leaves and say the prayer 7 times and he will say 7 Pater Noster with 7 Ave Maria.... 134 ---------- [Italian transcript] garoffani, incenso, mastici, ana onza s, e zaferano drama j e rubache di lauro onza j e cera nova onze iij. Et taglia la cera et mettila in ultima e che ogni cosa bene se incorpori et mesta finche e fredo acio che le polvere non vadino tutte in un loco et sera fatto, unguento optimo bono et perfetto. Et quello conserva in alberello ali tuoi bisogni per le sopra dette infermita, videlicet. Quando tu vorai adoperare il sopra ditto unguento ala siaticha e ala gotta frigida e ali nervi e ale broze e a male di madre e al dolore di rene et a tutte queste altre doglie fal chel sia fredo. Non lo scaldare niente et vedrai opera mirabile e fala ditta ontione piu volte. Item. Quando lo vorai adoperare ala milza, fa chel sia ben caldo et sopra li pone pezze calde et questo farai solamente la sera. Et guardati da tutte le cose contrarie a guarirai. Item. Quando lo vorai adoperare ali dolori, fa chel sia ben caldo et ongeti il corpo con sopra pezze ben calde et fala piu volte e presto li dolori cesserano. Item. Quando lo vorai adoperare contra ala febre quartana falo ben scaldare et ongeti solamente il filo dele rene et copriti molto bene in letto et farai questo 3 o 4 volte avanti chel ti venga la febre e presto guarirai. Et userai a mangiare spesso del osmarino et usa boni cibi et vederai operatione mirabile in tutte le sopra dette infermita quando che egli e fatto como eli e ditto di sopra per esse aprobato ale predette infirmita e quasi tutte li a guarite. Olio di fiori de salvia per ogni infiasone de gotte frigide de gombiti, mano e zinochio. Rx. olio di oliva del piu vechio che mai tu possi trovare. Poi torai una inchistara overo ampolla et fala piu di meza overo piena di fiori di salvia colti a luna matura. Poi la empia del ditto olio et lassela stare al sole per 8 giorni e che la stia ben coperta. Poi la farai bolire a bagno maria per meza ora et ritornela al sole per uno mese o piu et sera fatto. Poi con ditto olio chel sia ben caldo, ongeti tutte le doglie fredde causate per humori frigidi et maxime ala gotta frigida e a tutte le congionture et meti sopra stoppa di canape o lana susida che la sia ben calda et sopra altre peze et bene infassiato. Et questo farai 2 volte al giorno e presto il dolore cessera del ditto male fredo. Et molte persone questa racetta anno probata et continuandolo se ne sono guariti, per dei gratia. A guarire le doglie artetiche ut gotta arteticha. Rx. l’erba ditta arteticha, la quale fa la foglia longha un bon palmo e stretta simile a quelle dele cipole maligie overo schalognete, la quale nasse voluntiero in monte. Et quando vorai guarire la ditta gotta arteticha va inanti alo infermo e li dimanda se’l vole guarire dela gotta arteticha. Se lui dice de si dilli chel dicha 5 pater noster con 5 ave marie a riverentia dele 5 piaghe di yesu christo. Et tu averai ricolto nove foglie dela ditta erba arteticha et mostrale alo infermo. Ma prima incomincia a medicare in luna discressente et in die veneris per 9 matine continue, cioe a dire questa sotta scritta oratione 9 volte et lo infermo dira uno pater noster con l’ave maria per ogni volta che tu dirai l’oratione. Poi che tu l’averai ditta, taglia la ditta erba minutamente et torai un ovo fresco et incorpora insieme et coselo in la padelina a modo di fritella senza olio e senza altro cossi dasse solo. Et ne farai 9 boconzini et dali a mangiare allo infermo et per ogni boconcino dica uno pater noster con l’ave maria. Et la secunda matina farai el simile con 8 foglie et legerai 8 volte la ditta oratione e lui dira 8 pater noster con 8 ave maria. Et cossi farai la terza matina con 7 foglie et l’oratione la dirai 7 volte et lui dira 7 pater noster con 7 ave marie.