[English translation] Fragrant waters to compound the Water of Angels. Take 6 lb. of rose water, 3 lb. of orange flower water, 2 lb. of myrtle water, 1 ½ lb. of clover or lavender water, 1 lb. of spike lavender or basil water and ½ lb. of marjoram water. If you use waters distilled in the bain marie, they will always be better and more odorous than those distilled in lead, as has been said above. These are cleared in the sun in a glass vessel or in an oil jar that has been well cleaned inside. Put in the spices written below, that is 1 ounce each of fine cinnamon and orris root, 1 ½ ounces of solid storax, 2 ounces each of cloves and sandalwood, 2 ½ ounces each of benzoin gum and false cardamon or grains of paradise, 2 nutmegs, ½ ounce of mace and 2 drams of liquid storax. Take the cloves, the orris root and the benzoin gum and grind them minutely. Cut the sandalwood, the nutmegs and the storax as finely as you can. Leave the cloves whole. Put everything in the water and boil for one half hour, well covered, on the bain marie. Then remove it and leave it in the sun for 6 to 8 days and this will be your fragrant water, beautiful and good in all its qualities. To make it more perfect and with softer odor, strain it finely to make it clear and limpid and put it in a glass flask because it keeps better well-closed. Put in 4 grains of musk, 3 grains of ambergris, 2 grains of civet and an amount of camphor the size of a bean. Grind everything well by itself with sugar and 2 drops of brandy from the third distillation. With this the musk, the ambergris, the civet and the camphor are ground with fine sugar and 2 or 3 drops of good oil or oil of sweet almonds. Otherwise, take 2 or 3 whole almonds, break them up, grind them and grind everything with this. Put everything in the flask with water and shake it well up and down so that everything is well incorporated. Cover it well and let it stay in the sun for at least 20 to 30 days and shake it upside down at least once a day. In this way it will become very perfect, with very great fragrance and it can be placed before any great prince or nobleman. If you want to use it turbid, let it stay in the flask, and if you would like it clear, strain with a fine cloth and you will have a clear beautiful and odorous water. This is called the Water of Angels or Imperial Water and it is at your discretion to make it good or not. The way is open to make it good and it is given to you as the best, with the least expense, and it will bring you honor and increase your purse and do good work for you. Another kind of Water of Angels made in another way. Take 1 lb. each of the waters described above of leaves, powders and roots and that made of rose cakes, 2 lb. of rose water, 1 ½ lb. of orange flower water, 6 ounces of myrtle, 3 ounces each of clover and lavender and 2 ounces of spike lavender. Put them together in a flask and put therein these things, 1 ounce of benzoin gum, 1 ½ ounces of sandalwood, ½ ounce each of solid storax and aloe wood and 20 cloves. Everything should be coarsely broken up. Boil it in a bain marie for ½ hour. Then strain it so that it is clear and add 3 grains of musk, 2 grains of ambergris and 1 grain of civet, all ground in the way described above. Then put it again in the flask, well covered, on the bain marie for ½ hour but do not boil it at all. Then let it stay in the sun for 8 to 10 days and it will be made, fragrant, perfect, good and elegant Water of Angels. ---------- [Italian transcript] Aque hodoriffere a componere aqua d’angioli. Rx. aqua roxa lb. vj, aqua lanpha lb. iij, aqua di mortella lb. ij, aqua di triffoli o di lavanda lb. js, aqua di spigo o di basilico lb. j, e aqua di magiorana lb. s. Se tu torai le preditte aque stillate al bagno maria sempre serano migliori e piu hodoriffere che quelle che serano stillate al piombo como disopra e statto ditto, le quale siano purgate al sole et metele in vaso di vetro overamente in una zara ben polita drento. Et metivi drento queste sotto scritte speciarie, cioe canella fina, irios, ana onza j, storase sodo onze js, garoffani e sandali, ana onze ij, belgiuino e melegheta overo macalep, ana onze ijs, e noce moscate no. 2 e macis onza s e store liquido drame ij. Torai la canella, l’irios et belgiuvino, el gardamomo et macis et pesta li minutamente. Et il sandolo et le noce et il storace taglialo minutamente piu che tu poi. Et li garoffani lasseli cosi sono. Et ogni cosa tu meterai inela dita aqua. Poi farai bolire per una meza ora e ben coperta a bagno maria. Poi cavela et lassela al sole per 6 o 8 giorni et questa sera la tua aqua hodoriffera, bella e buona in tutta bonta. Et avolerla poi farla piu perfetta et di piu suave hodore, tu la colerai sutilmente et piglia la chiara e limpa et metila in uno fiasco di vetro perche meglio la si conserva e sta piu serrata et mettivi muschio grani 4 e anbracan grani 3 e zibetto grani 2 et tanta canfora quanto e un fasolo. Et ogni cosa sia bene masinato da sua posta con zucharo e 2 giozi di aqua vita di 3 cote. Con questo si masina il muschio et l’ambracan, el zibetto e la canfora vano masinato col zucaro fino et 2 o 3 giozi di olio di ben overo di mandole dolce overamente piglierai 2 o 3 mandole monde rompele et premilo date et con esso lo masinerai ogni cosa sutilmente. Et meterai ogni cosa inel fiasco con l’aqua et savazelo bene sotto sopra che ogni cosa bene se incorpori. Et turalo bene et lasselo stare al sole al manco 20 o 30 giorni et al manco una volta al giorno la savaza sotto sopra. Et a questo modo la te riussira molta perfetta et con grandissimo hodore et potra comparire inanti a ogni gran principe e signore. Et se tu l’avorai adoperare torbida, lassela stare in quello fiasco et se tu l’avorai chiara colela con una pezza sutila et averai l’aqua chiara e bella e hodoriffera. Et questa se adimanda aqua d’angioli overamente aqua imperiale et questo e rimesso in la tua discretione a farla bono o no. Tu ai la via aperta di farla bona e in te e rimesso la magiore et minore spesa et per avere onore larga la borsa et farai bona opera. Item. Un altra sorte de aqua d’angioli fata a un altro modo. Torai de l’aqua sopra detta fatta de foglie, polvere e radice et di quella fata de torte di roxe, ana lb. j, e aqua roxa lb. ij e lanfa lb. js e di mortella onze vj e triffolo e lavanda, ana onze iij, e spigo onze ij. Et meteli tutte insieme in fiasco et metivi drento queste cose, belzuino onza j, sandali onze js, storase sodo e legno aloe, ana onza s, garofani no. 20. Et roto ogni cosa grosso modo et farai bolire a bagno maria per ½ ora. Poi la colerai che la sia chiara et li agiongerai muscho grani 3, ambracan grani 2, zibetto grani j et siano masinati al modo ditto disopra. Poi rimeterai el dito fiasco chel sia ben coperto inel dito bagno per ½ ora ma non bola per niente. Poi fala stare al sole per 8 o 10 giorni et sera fatta, aqua d’angioli, hodoriffera, perfecta e bona e signorille.