[English translation] Unguent of lead for the legs. Take 2 lb. of clean lead and put it in a crucible and put in some sulfur. Put it in the fire to heat until it becomes powder. Then take 4 ounces each of rose oil and yellow litharge and put the litharge in strong vinegar for one night to soften. Put it with the oil in a pot with ½ ounce of powdered soot and 3 drams of white wax and then put in the powder. Make it barely hot in the pot and at once remove it from the fire and stir until it becomes cold. Then put it one more time on the fire and do the same and it will be made. Another of lead, also for the legs. Take ½ ounce each of mastic and incense, 1 ounce each of litharge and burnt lead and 3 ounces of white lead. All the above things should be in fine powder. Put them in a mortar with 4 ounces of rose oil and 3 ounces of strong vinegar and incorporate well with the pestle. As you continue to mix around in the mortar, the unguent will develop. If needed, add oil and vinegar as above and you will have a good and wonderful unguent. Another unguent for fracture or bruise. Take 3 ounces each of white lead, incense and mastic and 1 ounce of litharge and make an unguent of everything in the mortar. First they should be made into powder and then compounded with enough rose oil and vinegar. Use the pestle well, as is customary, and it will be made. Another for a heated condition. Take 6 ounces of white lead, 2 ounces of litharge, both reduced to powder, and 1 lb. of rose oil and 2 ounces of white wax. Compound these on a slow fire and when it is cooked, remove it from the fire and put therein 2 scruples of camphor, always mixing until it is cold and it will be done. Another unguent for an infected leg and it heals any sores difficult to cure. Take 2 ounces of zinc oxide, 1 dram each of white litharge, white lead and sarcocol gum, 1 ounce of rose oil and as much wax as is needed to give it body. Reduce the above things to powder. Put the oil, the gum and the wax on the fire and when these are melted, put in the other things. Let it stand for a little and remove it from the fire and it will be made. More for this malady of the leg. Take 3 ounces each of oily tar and myrrh, 1 ounce of oil of mastic and 2 ounces each of rose oil and clean wax. First melt the tar and the myrrh and then put in the other things and compound this on a low fire, stirring continually and you will make an unguent which will bring you honor, especially for fistulous conditions. Unguent of litharge to close up sores. Take one ounce each of litharge, mummy, mastic and myrrh, 2 ounces each of dragon's blood gum, fenugreek flour, tragacanth and gum arabic, and 2 ½ ounces each of oil of rose and oil of violet. Put the oils and the wax on the fire and melt them. Then remove it from the fire and put in all the other things made into fine powder. Return it to the fire and cook it a while, stirring continuously, and it will be made. Another for every sore on the leg, old or new. Take 1 handful of the herb agrimony and grind it and boil it in white wine and also add 1 handful of dried roses and boil it for one miserere. Wash the sore inside and out with this warm wine. Take 1 ounce each of mummy, long birthwort, round birthwort, mastic, myrrh, dragon's blood gum, hepatic aloe, zinc carbonate and braised squash and 2 drams of Armenian red clay. Grind these as finely as you can, and put it on the sore like a spice powder. First wash the sore with the herbs that were boiled in wine and put the powder on the sore in the form of a warm plaster. Bind it on so that it stays and stays warm. Do this 2 times a day and you will see a wonderful result. Even if the sore shows the bone, you will cure it soon. *Another to treat a sore without festering and without pain. Take rose oil and fir tree oil, that is the tears, as much of one as the other, and distill them together in a glass still on a slow fire. Then save it in a glass bottle, well closed, and use it when there is need. This oil never allows festering and does not cause pain and the sore may be cured rapidly. ---------- [Italian transcript] Unguento di piombo per gambe. Rx. lb. 2 di piombo novo et mettilo in uno crosolo et mettivi drento del solphero. Poi mettilo inel foco a brussare tanto chel diventi in polvere. Poi torai olio roxato e litragirio d’oro, ana onze iiij, et meterai il litragirio a mole inel aceto forte per una notte. Poi lo metterai con l’olio inel tozo e caligine fatto in polvere onza s, e cera bianca drame iij. Et poi li metterai la ditta polvere et farai che apeni grilli inel tozzo e presto lo leva dal foco e mesta tanto che divenga fredo. Poi lo rimetti un altra volta al foco et farai il simile et sera fatto. Item un altro de piombo pure per gambe. Torai mastice e incenso, ana onza s, litargirio e piombo brussato, ana onza j, e biacha onze iij et tutte le predette cose siano in polvere suttila et mettele inel mortaio con onze iiij de olio roxato e onze iij di aceto forte et lo incorpora bene col pistello. Et con piu lo menerai intorno inel mortaio l’unguento cressera et se’l bisogna li agiongi olio e aceto sopra detto et averai unguento mirabile e bono. Item unguento per fracture o macature. Rx. biacha, incenso, mastice, ana onze iij, e litragirio onza j, et farai d’ogni cosa unguento inel mortai[o] che prima siano fatte in polvere et componilo con olio roxato e aceto tanto che basti et falo col pistello in bona forma secondo il solato e sera fatto. Un altro ale complexion calide. Rx. biacha onze vj, litargirio onze ij, olio roxato lb. j, cera biancha onze ij, et componi con lento foco che siano in polvere et quando e cotto levelo dal foco et mettivi drento scropuli 2 di canfora, sempre gittando finche e fredo et sera fatto. Item unguento da gamba raze e che salda ogni piagha difficile a guarire. Rx. tucia preparata drame ij, litragirio d’argento, biacha e sarcocholla, ana drama j, e olio roxato onza j e tanta cera quanto basta a darli il corpo et farai polvere dele dette cose. Et metti al foco l’olio, la goma, la cera e como e disfatte, mette li altre cose et lassa stare per un poco et lo leva da foco et sera fatto. E piu al ditto mal di gamba. Torai rasa grassa e mirra, ana onze iij, e olio de mastice onza j e olio roxato e cera nova, ana onze ij. Prima la raxa falla disfare et la mirra et mette poi drento le altre cose et componeli a un picol foco, sempre mestando et farai unguento il quale ti fara honore quando e infistulita. Unguento di litargirio per consolidare piaghe. Rx. litragirio, mumia, mastice, mirra, ana onza j, sangue di drago, farina di fengreco, draganti e goma arabicha, ana onze ij, olio roxato e violato, ana onze ijs, cera nova onze js. Metti l’olii e la cera al foco et fala disfare. Poi levelo dal foco et mettivi drento tutte le altre cose fatte in polvere suttile et tornalo al foco et fallo al quanto cosere et sempre vi mesta drento et sera fatto. Item a ogni piaga di gamba, vechia o nova. Rx. erba agrimonia e pestela al quanto et falla bolire in vino bianco et foglie de oliva pur peste, ana m. uno, e rose seche m. uno et fatele bolire per uno miserere et con ditto vino lavate bene la piagha drento e fora chel sia caldo. Poi torai aristologia lunga e tonda, mastice, mirra, sangue di drago, aloe patico, tutia, zucha brussata, ana onza j, mumia e bolo armeno, ana drame ij, et fatele ben pistare sutilissimi quanto si pole et mettetene sopra alla piaga a modo de specie. Poi che la serra lavata et quelle erbe che a bolito inel vino metteteli sopra alla polve[re] insu la piaga a modo di impiasto chel sia caldo et infassatelo chel stia suso e chel stia caldo. Et farai cossi 2 volti al giorno et vedrai mirabile effetto. Etiam che del male se ne vedesse del osso, presto guarirai. *Item a medicare una piaga senza fare marcia et senza spasimo. Rx. olio roxato e olio di abeto, cioe la lachrima, tanto del uno quanto di l’altro, et siano destillati tutti dua insieme al lambico di vetro con lento foco. Poi lo serba in vaso di vetro e ben turrato. Et lo adopera quando ti fa di bisognio il quale olio non lassa mai far marza et non dole et presto guarisse.