[English translation] The golden unguent cures, grows flesh, consolidates and heals any fresh wound. Take 1 lb. of rose oil and 1 glass of very good wine and put it in a pot with 3 ounces of turpentine and put in these 3 clean herbs, cut and ground very finely and boiled in this oil until they are well cooked and strained thoroughly through muslin: 1 ½ handfuls of tansy, 1 handful of tamarind flowers and tips, and ½ handful of lesser centaury Then take 6 ounces each of calf and sheep fat, cut minutely, melted, strained and mixed, 1 dram each of frankincense and saffron, 1 ½ drams of pine tar and colofony resin, 2 ½ drams of incense, sarcocol gum and myrrh, 3 drams of mastic and 3 ½ ounces of clean wax. Make powder of all these other things using force and compound them together until everything is well incorporated. Strain it one more time, pressing the sack well so that nothing remains. Return it to the pot and make it boil on a slow fire, stirring continuously so it incorporates well. Before it is cooked, put in the wax and the saffron and remove it from the fire. Wash this warm with milk 3 times and cool it and it will be made. Put it away for your needs, because it is in name and in fact the golden unguent. White lead unguent for broken flesh and bad fistulas. Take 1 dram of gum ammoniac, 3 drams each of bdellium, frankincense, mastic, milk vetch and sarcocol gum, 2 drams each of myrrh and galbanum, 1 ½ ounces of yellow litharge, 2 ½ drams each of aloe and opopanax gum, 2 drams of verdigris, 2 ounces of pine tar and 2 ounces of white wax. First soak the ammoniac, bdellium, galbanum and opoponax in strong vinegar, enough to barely cover them and leave them for 6 hours and not more. Put 1 lb. of ordinary oil in a pot and put therein the litharge and make it come to a boil on a slow fire. Then put in the gums that were soaking in vinegar, straining them first. Boil it until the vinegar is consumed. Then put in all the other things, made into fine powder, and at the last the wax and let it boil very little, always stirring so it does not burn. Remove it from the fire and stir until it is cold and it will be made for your use. Unguent of Avicenna, called the unguent of Venus. Take 1 ½ ounces of white wax, ½ ounce each of pine tar and gum ammoniac, 2 ½ ounces of turpentine, 2 drams of opopanax, 1/2 ounce of verdigris, ½ ounce each of bdellium, milk vetch, incense, myrrh and galbanum, 1 ounce of yellow litharge and 1 ½ lb. of olive oil. Put the oil and yellow litharge in a pot and boil it a little on a slow fire. Put the gums, broken up, to soak in vinegar and strain them when you put them in the pot. Then put in the other things made into powder and let this cook sufficiently, using your ladle, on a slow fire so it does not burn. Before you remove it from the fire put in the verdigris, made very fine, and the wax, cut minutely. Then remove it from the fire and stir until it is cold and it will be made, a perfect unguent. Note that this unguent needs 2 pounds of oil if it is made in the wintertime and 1 ½ pounds in the summer. Some call this the Apostles' unguent. Use it. Little basic unguent, good and perfect. Take 3 ounces each of Greek pitch and thick pine tar, 2 ounces of turpentine, 1 ounce of clean wax. Put 6 ounces of ordinary oil in the pot and put therein the above things made into powder and boil it on a slow fire, always stirring. When it is cooked, put in the wax and at once remove it from the fire and stir until it is cold and it will be made. You can use it at your pleasure. ---------- [Italian transcript] Unguento aureo cura, incarna, consolida et salda ogni piagha nova. Rx. olio roxato lb. j e uno bichiere di bonissimo vino et metti inel tozo con la trementina onze iij et metteli drento queste 3 erbe nette, tagliate minute et peste sutilissimamente et fatte bolire in ditto olio tanto che siano ben cotte et fatto passare bene per la stamegna. Mille foglio m. uno ½, tramarino fiori e cime m. uno, e centaurea minore m. ½ , sevo di vitello e di castrato, ana onze vj, taglialo minuto e strugielo e colelo et componilo. Olibano, grogo, ana drama j, rasa de pino, colofonia, ana drame js, incenso, sarcocholla, mirra, ana drame ijs, mastico drame iij e cera nova onze iijs. Et de tutte queste altre cose ne farai polvere juste tue forze et le componi insieme tanto che sia ogni cosa bene incorporato. Poi lo ricolerai un altra volta, premendo bene il sachetto che nulla li rimanga. Et lo ritorna inel tozzo et fallo bolire con lento foco et sempre mestando che bene se incorpori. Et inanti chel sia cotto, metteli la cera, el grogo et levelo dal foco et cosi caldo lavelo 3 volte con latte et bene rimenandolo et fredo chel sera fatto et riponlo ali bisogni, impero che egli a e nomi e fatto, unguento aureo. Unguento ceruseo per carne fragida et fistule malvagie. Rx. armoniaco drama j, bidelio, olibani, mastice, astrologia rotonda e sarcocola, ana drame iij, mirra, galbano, ana drame ij, litragirio d’oro onze js, aloe, opoponaco, ana drame ijs, verderame drame ij, rasa di pino onze ij e cera bianca onze ij. Prima meterai a mole in aceto forte tanto che apeni stia coperto, lo armoniaco, bedelio, galbano e lo opoponaco et lasselo per ori 6 e non piu. Poi metterai inel tozzo olio comune lb. j et mettivi drento il litargirio et fallo levare il bolore a foco lento. Poi mettivi drento le gome che statti a mole con quella aceto et colali prima. Poi falo bolire tanto che si consumi l’aceto. Poi metterai drento tutte le altre cose fatto in polvere suttile et in ultimo la cera et lasselo bolire poco poco sempre mestano chel non piglii del cotto et levelo dal foco et mesta finche e freddo. Et sera fatto al tuo comando. Unguento di avicena e chiamalo unguento veneris. Rx. cera biancha onze js, rasa di pino, armoniaco, ana onza s, trementina onze ijs, opoponaco drame ij, verderame onza s, bedelio, astrologia longa, incenso, mirra e galbino, ana onza s e litargirio d’oro onza j e olio di oliva lb. js. Metti l’olio, el litargirio inel tozzo et falo um po bolire a lento foco et metterai le gome a mole in aceto che siano rotte et quando li metti inel tozzo tu li cola. Poi li metterai drento le alt[r]e cose fatte in polvere et lasselo cosere asufficientia adoperando la tua mestola dandoli foco lento chel non brusa et inanti che tu lo levi dal foco metivi il verderame fatto sutilissimo et la cera tagliata minuta. Poi lo leva dal foco et mestalo finche e fredo et sera fatto, e perfetto unguento. Nota se farai questo unguento per la invernata li vole olio lb. 2 e la estade lb. js. Et questo unguento alcuni lo chiama apostolorum. Valeti. Unguento basalico minore bono e perfetto. Rx. pesa greca, rasa di pino grassa, ana onze iij, termentino onze ij, cera nova onza j, et metterai olio comune onze vj inel tozzo et mettivi drento tutte le preditte cose fatte in polvere et falle bolire a foco lento sempre mestando. Et quando e cotto mettivi la cera et subito lo leva dal foco et mesta finche e fredo et sera fatto et lo adopera a tuo piacere.