[English translation]

By keeping to the rule described above and with a little fire, the water will distill properly and well because first the pot is heated, then the ashes heat the urinal, the wine vaporizes and hits on the parchment and moistens it and the urinal heats the cap and that draws the moisture out from the parchment and distills it into the receptacle. This makes very good brandy that is good to drink. However, it is not the best but it is enough to have seen the way and the rule as it is done to make the brandy described above. This is the amount that you will get out, 4 or 5 ounces of brandy per jug of wine and that will be sufficient if the wine was good, as was said above. In this way you will have achieved your purpose and this is enough.
Sage wine for contracted nerves and for lunacy and it is very powerful in paralysis.
Wine from sage is made in 2 ways, viz. Some put the sage in a sachet of fine linen cloth and bind it with a thread and put it in a cask at least half full of wine, tie it from above and let it stay in the wine. Some boil it when the must is boiled and they put this with wine in a cask or crockery pot or barrel. In both these 2 ways this wine is good in all the infirmities written below, using more or less according to the seriousness of the infirmity. Usually it is taken early in the morning or a glass is drunk before a meal or with all meals or the bad place is bathed, depending on the infirmity that must be treated. Especially it is good for one who has a toothache or loose teeth and in pain of the gums, by holding it warm in the mouth. It is powerful for every weak limb with tremor and for every bad humor and in paralysis when it is drunk repeatedly. It is powerful in headache and in contracted limbs and nerves. It is powerful against lunacy in those who at one period of the moon lose their normal reason. They should continue to drink it. It is powerful in stomach ache and in women with sickness of pregnancy. In conclusion, it is powerful in all nervous conditions of all human creatures and many have used it.

Another wine against paralysis and against every cold infirmity.
Take cinnamon in whatever quantity you wish, break it into fine pieces and put it in good wine and let it stay covered for 8 days in the sun to decompose. Then distill it with the cinnamon in a glass still on a slow fire or on a bain marie. In the morning give 2 ounces of this water, more or less according to the strength of the sick person. This is effective in paralysis and in many other cold infirmities.
Wine made of fennel that is powerful for cough, for the lungs and for defective eyes.
Take any amount that you wish of the herb fennel or its roots or seeds and boil it in must and put it in 2 casks or barrels and let it stay there. Use it according to the infirmity, more or less as you find it appropriate in your infirmity. This wine is good against haze and other defects of the eyes, against dropsy, against weakness and especially in little children and against venoms and bad food and it helps greatly in cough and the lungs. It increases milk in women and is powerful for sickness of the bladder. Drinking this wine in the evening when you go to sleep and in the morning as soon as you arise cleans out all the bad humors. If you use it at meals it is especially good for the eyes and maintains your eyesight for a long time.

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[Italian transcript]

Et tenendo quest ordine sopra detto et dandoli poco foco, l’acqua destillera politamente e bene perche prima se riscalda el pignato e la cenere, riscalda l’orinale et il vino fuma et perchotte inela carta et quella inumidisse et l’orinale riscalda il capello et quello tira la humidita asse fora dela carta et fa distillare inel ricipiente. Et fa bonissima acqua vite, la quale e bona da bere. Abenche ella non sia fina ma questa basta per aver veduto il modo et l’ordine como si fa affare la preditta acqua vite. Et questa sie la sua misura quando el ne sera ussita 4 overo 5 onze per boccale di vino el sera assai essendo bono il vino como ditto e disopra. Et a questo modo tu averai lo intento tuo et questo ti basta.
Vino de salvia per attration de nervi e a lunatici et molto vale a paraletici.
Questo vino de salvia si fa in 2 modi, vz. Alcuni metano la salvia in uno sachetto di panno lino sottile et lo legano con un filo et lo mandano drento inela botte per insino a mezo il vino et leghalo per disopra et lasselo sempre stare cosi inel vino. Et alcuni la fanno bolire quando si fa bolire il mosto et la mettano cosi col vino inela botte o vasello over barile. Et in tutti questi 2 modi el preditto vino egli e bono a tutte queste sotto scritte infermita, usandolo piu e meno secondo le grave infermita et massime tolto la matina per tempo overo bevto uno bichiere inanti pasto overo a tutto pasto overo bagnato il loco dannoso et secondo infermita si debbe adoperare. Et massime a chi avesse mal de denti o che li scrolla et al dolore de zenzive et tenendolo in bocca caldo. Et vale ad ogni membro debile, tremante et a ogni cattivo humore et ali paraletici, continuando a berne. Et vale al dolore del capo et atratione de membri et de nervi. Et vale contra a lunatici li quali aponto di luna perdono il proprio intelletto, continuandolo ha bere. Et vale al dolore di stomaco et ale donne al male di matrice. Et in conclusione, il vale a tutti i lochi nervosi di tutte le creature humane et molti l’anno adoperato.
Item vino contra al paraletico et contra ad ogni infermita fredda.
Rx. cinamomo quella quantita che a te pare, rotto in pezetti minuti et metilo inelo vino bono et lasselo stare per 8 giorni al sole in putrefatione e ben coperto. Et fallo distillare col cinamomo drento al lambicco di vetro e con lento foco overo a bagno maria. Et di questa aqua ne darai la matina onze ij o piu o meno secondo la virtu delo infermo, il quale vale a paraletici et a molte altre infermita fredde.
Vina fatto de finochio, vale ala tosse e al polmone et al mancamento deli ochii.
Rx. l’erba del finochio overamente dele sue racice o del suo seme et quella quantita che a te pare et fallo bollire inel mosto quando l’arai messo inel tuo botiscello over barile et lasselo sempre stare drento et lo userai secondo le infermita et piu e meno secondo che tu lo troverai propicio ala tua infermita, il quale vino e bono contra ala caligine et altri mancamenti deli ochii et contra ala indropesia et contra al effantine et massimamente ali putti piccoli, e de contra ali veneni et ali cibi cativi et molto zova ala tosse e al polmone et multiplica lo latte ale donne. Et vale contra al male dela vissicha et purga tutti li cativi humori, usando a bere del ditto vino la sera quando vai a dormire et la matina per tempo quando subito sei levato. Et se’l potesti ussare a pasto et massime per li ochii molto piu presto ti zovarebe a mantenere longamente la vista.