[English translation]

For coldness in the joints, that is for cold gout.
Take the leaves, stem and fruit of wild cucumber. Grind them and extract the juice with force and put it on the fire until you have skimmed the foam off but do not let it boil. Then strain it through the strainer. Take again as much rose oil and boil them together until this reduces 1/3 or ¼ and it will be made. Save it for your needs, that is when a person may have been in some humid place and have taken up humidity in his joints so he is not able to move, take some of the juice and make it very warm and rub the painful place very well and put on a stupe of hemp or unwashed wool which is better. It should be very warm and well wrapped with a warm cloth and keep it warm. Do this 2 times a day. Do not eat humid things and in 10 or 15 days you will be cured because the ointment draws out all the humidity that was converted into water and soon you will be freed.

Another.
The root of wild cucumber described above is useful to give a horse to eat that has pains and soon that will cure it. It is tested.
Laxative of quinces against the cold gout and hip pains and it comforts the stomach.
Take whatever number of quinces that you think fit and peel and clean them, rubbing them gently back and forth well. Boil them in good white wine until they are very well cooked and broken apart. Then take 3 lb. of this paste and 2 lb. of cleaned honey and reboil them together, stirring continuously because it tends to stick. Remove it from the fire and when it is half cooled, put therein the things written below, all made into very fine powder. Viz. Take 2 drams each of cloves, red ginger, mastic, long pepper, nutmeg and cinnamon, ½ ounce of autumn crocus, 1 ½ drams of turbith and 3 drams of purging bindweed. Incorporate these well together while the paste is somewhat warm and it will make a good and perfect electuary. In the morning at dawn take the amount of one nut which will be about half an ounce and go to sleep at least for one hour. If you will continue this you will see a wonderful effect.
Unguent that is powerful for sciatica, cold gout, retracted nerves, pain of the womb, kidney pain, quartan fever and pain from the spleen.
Take 2 lb. of olive oil, the oldest you can find because the older it is the better it is, 1 handful each of rosemary, sage, rue, wormwood, tips of the sprouts of
jebuli
, that is wild elder, and put them in the oil and put in 3 ounces of malvasia or good white wine and boil everything together with a slow fire until all the wine is gone. You can test this by putting a drop of the oil on the grill of the fire and if it sizzles, the wine is not all consumed and let it boil a little more until it is all used up. This wine is used because the herbs would be burnt well before they would be cooked to extract their power into the oil. Then remove it from the fire, strain and press the herbs in the press and extract all the substance well. Put in a bowlful of earthworms that have been well washed 3 or 4 times with white wine. Put these in a little pot with good white wine and boil it very, very slowly on a little fire so that they do not burn and when it is well cooked, the wine will be dried up. Then put in 3 ounces of ground active sulfur and let it barely boil. Strain it through loose linen cloth with force so all will come through. Put this together with the oil and put everything again on the fire and incorporate it well. Then add in the things written below, all made into very fine powder. Viz.

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[Italian transcript]

Ala frigidita inele congionture, cioe a gotta frigida.
Rx. cochumeri assinini, le foglie, il fusto, el frutto. Pestale et cavane il suco per forza et mettilo al foco tanto che tu l’abia ben schiumato ma non lo lassare bolire. Poi lo cola per la stamigna. Poi torai oltertanto olio roxato et falo bolire insieme tanto che calli il terzo overo il quarto et sera fatto. Et quello conserva ali bisogni, cioe quando la persona fusse statta in qualche loco humido e avesse perso humidita inele congionture che movere non si potesse, alora piglia del ditto suchio et falo bene scaldare et ongerai il loco adolorato molto bene et metterai sopra stoppa di canape, overamente lana susi[d]a che e meglio, che sia ben calda et sopra peze calde et bene infassato et stia caldo. Et questo farai 2 volti al giorno e non mangiare cose humidi e in 10 o 15 giorni guarirai perche la ditta ontione cavera fora tutta la humidita convertita in aqua, e presto serai libero.
Item.
La radice del cochumero sopra ditto vale a darla a mangiare a uno cavallo che avesse li dolori e presto lo guarisse. E di provata.
Cotognata sulutiva contra ala gotta frigida e male di fianchi et conforta lo stomacho.
Rx. dele mele cotogne quella quantita che a te pare et mondale e nettali drento e fora politamente e bene et fali bolire inel vino bianco bono tanto che siano ben ben cotti e disfatti. Poi torai dela ditta pasta lb. iij e mele purgato e netto lb. ij et la farai ribolire insieme et sempre li mesta drento perche voluntieri si atacharebe. Poi la levi dal foco et quando e meza freda, mettivi drento queste sotto scritte cose, tutte fatte in polvere sutilissima. Vz. Rx. garoffani, zenzero rosso, mastice, pevere longo, noce moschate e cinamomo, ana drame ij, hermodattilorum onza s, turbiti drame js e diagridi drame iij. Et incorpora bene insieme che la pasta sia anche al quanto calda et incorpora benissimo et farai uno lattovario optimo e perfetto del quale tu ne piglierai la matina al alba quanto che una noce il quale sera intorno a meza onza et vedi di dormirli sopra al manco un ora. Et vedrai mirabile efetto se aliquando lo continuerai.
Unguento che vale a siaticha, a gotta frigida, a nervi retratti e a mal di madree dolore di rene et ala febre quartana et al dolore de milza.
Rx. olio di oliva lb. 2 del piu vechio che tu possi trovare perche con piu eli e vechio meglio, e osmarino, salvia e ruta e assentio e le cime deli coresine di jebuli, cioe deli sambuchi salvatichi, ana m. uno. Et metteli inel ditto olio et mettivi onze iij di malvasia o vino bianco bono. Et farai bolire ogni cosa insieme tanto che calli tutto il vino con foco lento. Et farai questo saggio, meti una gioza del ditto olio su una brasa di foco e se frige el vino non ne consumato tutto et lasselo al quanto bolire tanto che tutto se consumi. Et questo vino si mette perche l’erbe si brussare bene avanti che li se cosesse et lassene la sua virtu inel olio. Poi levelo dal foco e calelo e preme l’erbe sotto al torchietto et cavene bene tutta la substantia. Poi meterai in ditto olio piena una scudella di lombrisi teresti et che siano ben lavati 3 o 4 volte con vino bianco. Poi meteli in uno pignatino piccolo et mettivi sopra vino bianco bono et fali bolire pian piano a un picol foco acio che non brusano. Et quando serano cotti el vino sera assiato. Et allora mettivi drento solfero vivo pesto onze iij et lassa levare apeni il bolore. Poi li colerai con peza lina rada e strettamente che tutti passerano per forza per essere ben cotti et li metterai in compagnia del olio. Et rimetterai ogni cosa al foco et falo bene incorporare. Poi li agiongerai drento queste sotto scritte cose tutte fatte in polvere sutilissime, vz….