[English translation] For blockage and swelling. Take 16 lb. of malvasia or good, lively white wine and put therein 1 handful each of these herbs: horehound, sage, hyssop, fennel, endive and bugloss and put everything in a clean vessel without odor and boil it until it reduces in half. Then strain it and press the herbs in the little press and extract the substance, incorporating it with the wine. Then put it again in the pot and put in 6 ounces of clean honey and reboil it for a quarter of an hour. Strain it again so it is very clear. Save it in a glass flask, well covered, in a cool place for your needs. In the morning give the patient 6 ounces to drink as a warm syrup and put in one-half tablespoon of very fine powder of tartar from white wine. Do this for 8 to 10 mornings in a row. Then stay in bed to sweat. Dry yourself very well. Afterward get wrapped in a robe and walk in the room so that the blood is rewarmed and eat when you feel some appetite. Eat things good for you and well cooked. Drink little and stay warm. Continue with this beverage as described and soon, with God's grace, you will be cured. This has been tested by many persons and they are cured and well, through God's grace.... 58 Crush some roots of fennel and celery and extract juice and take an equal weight or measure with a little good white wine in the form of a warm syrup. By continuing this for several days you will soon be cured of the swelling. It has been tested. For one whose face has become yellow. Take the herb betony and dry it and make very fine powder of it and drink it warm with good white wine early in the morning as a syrup. The good color will return soon to your face. Also boil some of this herb in malvasia with 1 handful each of southern wood, horehound, burnet saxifrage, chicory, absinthe, marjoram and rosemary, and give 2 ounces of this as a syrup. Use this beverage to drink and the color of your face will return to the way it was before. If you will do this you will be cured rapidly. It has been tested. Water for blockage of the veins. Take 1 handful each of the herbs scabiosa, bugloss, sage, fennel, hyssop and horehound and distill all these herbs in a glass still with a jug of good white wine and when it has been distilled, take all that water and redistill it. Then save it in a glass vessel and give 2 ounces of it to the patient every morning in the form of a warm syrup. It should be taken early and it will help the person greatly. Electuary for stomach problems caused by the spleen and humors from bad blood. Take 2 ounces each of fresh roses and rue, 4 ounces each of roots of endive, of chicory, of betony and fennel and 6 ounces each of borage and verbena. All these things should be cut and ground finely and, if desired, they can be candied in 3 lbs. of honey. Then put in these spices: 1 ounce of cloves, 1 dram of saffron and 2 ounces of nutmeg, and incorporate them well and cook it a little and use it and it will help you. ---------- [Italian transcript] Ala oppilatione et bessenfio. Rx. malvasia overo vino bianco bono galliardo lb. 16 et mettivi drento queste erbe, marobio, salvia, ysopo, finochio, endivia e buglossa, ana m. uno, et metterai ogni cosa in uno vaso netto senza odore et fallo bolire tanto che calli la metta. Poi lo cola et preme le erbe sotto al torchietto et cavane la substantia incorporando col vino. Poi lo rimetti inela pignata et li metti drento mele purgato onze vj et falo ribollire per uno quarto d’ora. Poi lo ricola per essere piu netto. Et poi tu lo conserva in fiasco di vetro e ben coperto in loco fresco per li tuoi bisogni. Poi la matina ne darai al paciente a bere caldo a modo di syropo onze vj et mettivi drento mezo chugiaro di tartaro di vin bianco fatto in polvere sutilissima et questo farai per 8 o 10 maitine continue. Stando in letto e ben coperto per sudare. Poi ti rissuga benissimo. Dopoi tu leverai suso vestito con la zimara intorno et passegerai per la camora accio chel sangue si riscaldi et come tu senti lo apetitto e tu mangia e mangia cose bone e ben cotte e bevi poco e sta caldo. Et questa bevanda continuandola como ditto e presto per dei gratia guarirai che da piu persone questa e statta aprobata e sono guariti e bene per dei gratia. Et se tu pesterai radice di finochio e di appio e cavarne suco et pigliarne a ugual peso o misura con uno poco di vino bianco bono caldo in modo di syropo et continuandolo per al quanti giorni, presto guarirai del bessinfio. E probato. Chi fusse giallo inel viso. Rx. del erba bertonicha fala seccare et fane polvere sutilissima et usela a bere con bon vino bianco caldo la matina per tempo a modo di syropo et presto ti fara ritornare il bel colore in viso. Et anche se tu farai cosere dela ditta erba con abrotano, marobio, pimpinella, cicorea, assentio, maiorana, rosmarino, ana m. uno, bolito con malvasia et dane onze ij a modo di syropo. Et usare a bere dela ditta bolitura e ti fara tornare collorito como tu eri di prima et se farai questo guarirai e presto. E de provata. Aqua dela oppilatione dele vene. Rx. erba schabiosa, buglossa, salvia, finocchio, ysopo, marrobio, ana m. uno, et tutte queste erbe fale destillare al lambicco di vetro. Et mettevi incompagnia a destillare un bocale di vin bianco bono. Et poi che sera stillata, piglia quell aqua tutta et fala restillare un altra volta. Poi la conserva in vaso di vetro et ne darai al paciene onze ij ogni matina calda a modo di syropo et la piglii in tempo fresco et farati uttile molto ala persona. Lattovorio delo stomacho per causa dela milza e humori di mal sangue. Rx. roxe fresche, ruta, ana onze ij, barbe di endivia, di radichio e di bertonicha e finochio, ana onze iiij, fior di boragine e verminacha, ana onze vj. Tutte queste cose vano tagliate e peste sutilmente et poi si vogliano conficere in lb. 3 di mele. Poi li meti drento queste specie, garoffani onza j, zafferano drama j, nuce muscata onze ij et bene incorporate et cotto quanto basti et usalo e zovarati.