[English translation]

Pills against many infirmities and especially against plague.
Take 3 scruples of myrrh, 1 ounce of saffron and 4 ounces of hepatic aloe and incorporate these, finely powdered, mixed with white wine. Likewise take 1 ounce of hepatic aloe and a quarter ounce of myrrh and ½ ounce of saffron and mix as above and make pills.

Another. Pills for the stomach and the head.
Take some hepatic aloe, roses, cloves and saffron, the amounts at your discretion, with juice of absinth or of cabbage, mix them and they will be perfect pills.
Prayer against the plague.
'God destroy you + and remove you + at last from your place and your root in the world of the living.' Write this and say it every morning and carry it with you and you will be safe.
Remedy against the plague.
Carry with you in your mouth a little piece of zedoary root and then you will go safely among those sick with plague and have no fear. With the aid of God you will not catch the sickness. You will be even more secure if you will carry some good odorous things with you and continually smell them.
Confection to lift up the heart and dispel melancholy.
Take 6 drams of dry roses, ½ dram of sedge, 3 drams each of cloves, mastic, lavender and plowman's spikenard, 2 drams each of cinnamon and crocus and 1 dram of lesser cardamon. Make very fine powder of everything and incorporate them. Put 1 lb. of fine sugar on the fire and melt it in rose water into which 3 grains each of musk and ambergris have been chopped. Make a confection as usual and keep this to use 2 or 3 times a week, especially early in the morning and you will see great improvement in your health. It has been tested.
Very perfect nitric acid according to Aristotle, with its properties.
Take 2 lb. of ground Roman vitriol, 1 lb. of very fine saltpeter, 6 ounces of chopped up cinnabar and 1 lb. of fine strong ash. Incorporate these 4 things together well and distill them in a glass retort luted well around and on a little, slow fire. When you see the cap of the retort becoming yellow, the first water has been made and be quick to remove the receptacle below and put there another collecting flask and seal it well around so the fumes do not leak out. Continue with a slow fire with dry wood and take the second water from its position below and keep it well sealed so it will not give off all its spirit. Do not ever let the fire get too hot and continue until the cap is no longer very yellow and then all will be made. Save this.... 138
These are its approved powers, viz.
First, take a little of the water and put therein some cleaned quicksilver. Then put some of this water on a developing malignancy for 3 or 4 days and soon one will be freed from such infirmity.... 139

Another.
If you will put some fine silver in this water and then put some of this water onto cleaned mercury, it will soon become firm and hard and it cannot be distinguished from the progenitor. This is a beautiful thing to see.

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[Italian transcript]

Pillole contra a molte infirmita et maxime contra peste.
Rx. mirra scropuli iij, zafferano onza j, aloe patico onze iiij et incorpora sutilmente in polvere, impastato con vino bianco. Overamento torai aloe patico onza j e mirra un quarto e zafferano onza s et componi ut supra et fiat pillole.
Item pillole contra alo stomaco e ala testa.
Rx. aloe patico, rose, garofani e zafferano a tua discretione con suco di assentio o de cavoli et componi et serano perfette pillole.
Oratione contra peste.
‘Deus destruuet te + et in finem evelet te + e migrabit te de tabernaculo tuo et radicem tuam de terra viventium +.’ Scrivela e dila ogni matina et porta tecum e serai sicuro.
Rimedio contra ala peste.
Porta con esso teco in bocha uno poco di radice di zedovaria et poi va sicuramente tra li amalati di peste e non avere paura et, con lo aiutto di dio, non piglierai il male. Et serai molto sicuro piu se porterai adosso boni hodori et sempre hodorando.
Confetto da legrare il core et tole la malinconia.
Rx. rose seche drame vj, cipero drama s, garofani, mastici, spigo e bachara, ana drame iij, canella e croco, ana drame ij, e cardamomo minore drama j, et farai polvere d’ogni cosa minutissimamente et incorpora insieme. Et metterai una libra di zuccharo fino al foco et distempera con aqua roxa inla quale sia tritato muscho e ambracan, ana grani iij. Et fane confetto secondo l’arte et quello conserva per usarlo 2 o 3 volte ala setimana e maxime la matina per tempo et vederai opera bella di sanitade inela tua persona. E di aprobato.
Aqua forte molta perfetta secundo Aristotile con le sue proprieta.
Rx. vitriolo romano pesto lb. ij, sal nitro ben suttile lb. j, cinaprio ben macinato onze vj, e cenere forte suttila lb. j. Et incorpora bene insieme queste 4 cose et falle distillare per bozza di vetro luttata bene intorno et con poco foco e lento. Et quando vedrai il capello o la bozza avenire giallo, alora la prima aqua sara fatta et sia presto alevarla di sotto et metere sotto un altro recipiente e turarlo bene intorno chel non rispiri. Et seguita a darli foco lento con legna secha et la prima et la secunda aqua mettile da sua posta e tienla ben turata perche egli e tutto spirito che non exalasse in aria. Et non abandonare mai il foco per insino a tanto chel capello non sia ben giallo et allora tutta sera fatta et quella conserva.
Et queste sono le sue virtu aprobate. Vz.
Primamente torai um poco dela ditta aqua et mettivi drento delo argento vivo chel sia purgato. Poi meterai dela ditta aqua sopra ale nassentie velenose per 3 o 4 giorni et presto se liberera di tale infermita.
Item.
Se tu meterai in ditta aqua argento fino e poi meterai dela ditta aqua sopra allo argento vivo, chel sia purgato, presto diventera sodo e duro, ma non si pole diffedere dal parengone ma per vedere e cosa bella.