[English translation] Water for bad eyes. Take one handful of rue and put it in a glass vessel and put thereon good white wine. Then put in a large amount of silver and put it in a bowl, uncovered, for 3 days and 3 nights. Remove it and strain it carefully and wash the eyes thoroughly with the decoction and it will make you very pleased. Take rue boiled with white wine and put in a little sugar and zinc carbonate and put it in the eye. Another for bad eyes. Take 3 lb. of honey and 6 ounces of fine sugar and one handful of the herb celandine and some white bread crumbs soaked in juice of rue or in distilled water of rue and water of celandine. Mix everything and distill it in glass and bathe the eyes with this water. Another for the eye that may be bloody. Take 6 ounces of rose water, 1 dram of zinc oxide and ½ dram of camphor and 6 ounces of good white wine and mix these things carefully and put them in a flask and shake it well upside down and put it in the sun for 8 to 10 days or boil it on a bain marie, and with this water bathe the eyes repeatedly and, by continuing it, the signs of blood will go away.... 11 A very good remedy for the eye that has been wounded. Take juice from red clover with the dark mark and put some of the juice in the wounded eye and do not touch it for 24 hours and this will help you.... 12 The best remedy for every painful eye. Take absinthe, pennyroyal, laurel and cumin and grind everything together and make very fine powder. Then compound it with purified honey and boil it slowly so that it is thickened a little. Then put it in the eyes and soon it will remove the pain. Water of celandine or swallow wort for bad eyes. Take the herb celandine, that is swallow wort, which has the same power to heal cloudy vision. Take it in flower and cook it in pure water in which is well-cleaned honey. Afterwards, strain it through linen cloth and distill this decoction in a glass still. Put this distillation in the eyes repeatedly and it will relieve you quickly. Another water for the eyes. Take rose water and burdock, rue, rosemary, flowers of broad beans, celandine, agrimony, fennel and sage in equal amounts and distill all the herbs and collect the water. Leave it in the sun for 10 to 15 days. Then bathe the eyes in the morning and the evening and, if you have a serious sickness, drink half a glass in the evening when you go to sleep. Take care that you do not eat unhealthful things and be careful to drink only a little wine and this will help you considerably. Another to clarify the vision. Take juice of cottonweed and let it soak one night. Filter it and leave it for one night in a bottle and put therein a little zinc oxide and fine sugar. Then rub the eyes with it for 15 to 20 days, 2 or 3 times a day, and you will be cured. Another water for bad eyes. Take one soldo ofzinc oxide in rose water, and one glass of rose water and one quatrino of fine sugar and one glass of racese wine or other strong white wine and incorporate everything together and put it in a covered bottle in the sun for 8 to 10 days and turn it upside down often so that it mixes well. Bathe the eyes repeatedly and see that some enters around the eye and if you feel it a little do not doubt that this is the best sign that you can have of a quick cure against the illness and the need may disappear and you will be cured.... 13 Another water for bad eyes. Take 8 ounces of good malvasia wine, 4 ounces of rose water, 1 dram of verdigris and cloves and tie them up in a piece of cloth and put them to soak in the malvasia. Then boil everything for one miserere and remove the cloth and squeeze it very well into the infusion. The stronger you want the water, the more you should squeeze the button of cloth. Let it clear and put this water in the eyes and soon you will be cured. This has much value for blurred eyesight and is very well tested.... 14 Another water for the eyes. Take a clean pot and put therein 6 pounds of cistern water and put it on the fire and when it begins to boil put in verdigris, white sugar and ordinary salt, everything in fine powder, and let it boil for one-half hour. Remove it and when it is cool, filter it and let it clear well. Then put it in a bottle and wash the eyes with it and you will see wonderfully. This is a praiseworthy thing. ---------- [Italian transcript] Aqua per mal di occhi. Rx. ruta, m. uno, e mettila in vaso vitriato et mettivi sopra vin biancho bono. Poi mettivi drento al quanti grossi d’argento et mettilo ala rosata e discoperto per 3 di e 3 notte. Levelo e colalo strettamente et di ditta dicotione lavati spesso li ochi e ti fara mirabil servitio. Et se tu torai la ruta con vin bianco fatta bolire e metivi uno poco di zucharo e tucia e meti nel ochio. Item per male di occhi. Torai lb. iij di mele e zucharo, onze vj, fino et erba cilidonia, m. uno, et al quanto di mirola di pane bianco et insuppato nel suco di ruta over nel aqua stillata di ruta e aqua di cilidonia et ogni cosa incorpora e fa stillare per vetro et con ditta aqua bagna. Item, occhio che fusse sanguinoso. Torai aqua roxa onze vj, tucia preparata drama j, e canphora drama ½, e vino bianco bono onze vj, e componi sutilmente queste cose e metteli in una inchistara e savazala bene sotto sopra et metila al sole per 8 o 10 giorni overo fala bolire a bagno maria et con ditta aqua bagnati spesso li occhi et andera via li segni sanguinosi, continuandola. Item a occhio che fusse ferrito, bonissimo rimedio. Torai suco di trifoglio nero dalli occhi et metti del ditto suco ineli occhi ferriti et non lo tochare per 24 ori e ti aiuttera. Item ad ogni dolore di occhio, optimo rimedio. Torai assentio, pulegio e alloro e comino e ogni cosa pesta e fane polvere sutilissima. Poi componila con mele purgato et fali bolire lentamente che uno poco si spesischa. Poi meti sopra ali occhi e presto ti leva il dolore. Aqua di cilidonia vel rondinaria per male di occhi. Rx. erba cilidonia ut rondinaria virtus talis est si vis sanari de occulorum caliginis. Acipe eam quando florent et eam cuoque in acqua limpihiosa in qua sit mele bene mundum. Postea cola per pannum linum et illa decotionem distilla per lambicum vitreum et de illa que distillaverit pone sepe in oculis et cito liberabitur. Item aqua da occhi. Torai aqua roxa e barbena, ruta, osmarino, fior di fava, cilidonia, agrimonia, finochio e salvia, ana, et di tutte le ditte erbe fane aqua al lambico di vetro. Poi lassela al sole per 10 o 15 giorni. Poi bagnati li ochi matina e sera et se tu avesse gran male bevene mezo bichiere la sera quando vai a dormire et guardati di non mangiare cose contrarie et guardati dal vino bevene manco che tu poi, e zovarati assai. Item a chiarifichare la vista. Torai suco di cartofilago e lasselo cossi per una notte. Colalo et lasselo cosi per una notte in una ampolla et mettivi drento uno poco di tucia preparata e zucharo fino. Poi ongeti li occhi per 15 o 20 giorni, 2 o 3 volti al di, e guarirai. Item aqua per male di occhi. Torai tucia preparata in aqua roxa un soldo e aqua roxa uno bichiero e uno quatrino di zucharo fino e vino racese o altro vino bianco potente uno bichiere, et incorpora ogni cosa insieme et mettila in ampolla coperta al sole per 8 o 10 giorni e bene spesso la volti sotto sopra acio che bene se incorpori, et bagna ti spesso li occhi et fane entrare al quanta drento et se ti fara al quanto rissentire non dubitare che quello e il migliore segno che tu possi avere per guarire presto per essere contraria al male e pero bisogna chel ceda e guarirai. Item aqua per mal di occhi. Torai malvasia bona onze viij, e aqua roxa onze iiij, e verderame drama j, e garofani et metteli in una pezetta legata et mettila a mole in ditta malvasia. Poi farai bolire cogni cosa per uno miserere et cavarai quella pezetta e strochela molto bene inela infussione et con piu vorai l’aqua forte tanto piu strichai il bottone. Poi lassela schiarire et metterai dela ditta aqua neli occhi e presto guarirai e questa molto vale ali occhi offuschati e de molto bona aprobata. Item aqua da occhi . Torai una pignata nova et mettivi drento aqua di cisterna lb. vj, et mettila al foco et quando comincia a bolire mettivi drento verderame, zuccharo candido e sal commune, ogni cosa in polvere sutilissimo et lasselo bolire per meza ora et levelo et quando e fredo, colalo et lassela ben schiarire. Poi la meti in una ampolla et con essa ti lava li occhi et vedrai mirabilmente e cosa laudabile.