[English translation]


Another for a horse that has pain in the body.
Take 1 handful each of the herb savin and camomile flowers and ½ ounce of ground cumin and boil everything in 2 jugs of good white wine until it reduces 1/3, with the herbs cut minutely. When it is tepid, put it down the throat by force with a funnel of horn. Then take 1 handful of the herb savin, cut finely, and give it to eat with bran and in 3 hours give warm bran mash to drink. Keep the horse as warm as you can. Then take 2 handfuls of the herb ground pine, cut finely, and fry it slowly in a pan with ordinary oil. Then rub it, very warm, on the kidney and the flanks. Do this 2 times a day and soon, through God's grace, it will cure. This is a rare secret and has been tested many times.

Another to free an animal quickly that has pain.
Give the sick animal the root of wild cucumber to eat and it will at once be cured. Also if you say these words 3 times while touching the body or saying it in the right ear, it will be cured at once. Viz. 'When Christ was born all pain was cured. Flee pain. Flee pain + because the Lord pursues you.' At once, through God's grace, the horse will be freed.

Another for the pain that comes to a horse through overheating or overcooling.
Note that when you go to the midnight mass of Christ's birth which is called the mass of Saint Anastasia, + when the priest says the Pater Noster, say it with him with all deference. When you want to help a horse, put your hands to the right ear and say 3 Pater Noster with 3 Ave Maria and make 3 crosses in honor of the Holy Trinity and Saint Anastasia in commemoration of that mass you heard on the night when you said the Pater Noster with the the priest. Then make a good bed for the horse and do not worry for soon it will be cured.
The horse that has a cough or is cold or is broken-winded.
Take 6 radish roots, 6 ounces of butter, 4 heads of garlic and ½ ounce of pepper. Everything should be ground finely and incorporated together. Early each morning give the horse some of it to eat, as much as an egg each time, for 15 days, and at once put the bit in his mouth and leave it there for 2 or 3 hours so he does not eat. Then give him his bran mash and nothing more and soon he will be cured. Keep him warm in his stall with his cover. This has been tested.

Another to cure the broken-winded horse.
Take a measure of barley that is free of powder and dirt and boil it with enough water until the barley cracks. Then remove it and press out the barley in the press and put this substance with the boiled water. Put in 1 handful of nettles and 2 handfuls of the herb juniper, cut finely, and return everything to boil together a little. Then with dexterity give this boiled liquid to the horse to drink for 10 to 15 days and it will be cured. Keep the horse warm. Boil with the barley a half pound of lard from a young male pig.

Another to cure a horse rapidly that is cold.
Take 1 handful of finely-cut agrimony and half a handful of laurel berries made into fine powder and give it to the sick horse to eat. Then give the horse white liquid, that is bran mash, to drink. After you give it this to drink, put in its mouth a piece of withe in the form of a bit smeared with laurel oil. Then when the horse has drunk, make it walk a little with its blanket. Then lead it into its stall and keep it warm and soon it will be cured. It needs good care, as is said above.
So your horse will run better than all the others and will defeat them in a race, be advised that when he begins to run, say these words and do not say any other. '
Christus abiel. Christus abiel. Christus abieli
.' Say nothing more and it will run better than all the others. This has been shown in Barbary.

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[Italian transcript]

Item a cavallo che abbia li dolori in corpo.
Rx. erba savina e fior di camomilla, ana m. uno, e comino pesto onze s et farai bolire ogni cosa in 2 bocali di vino bianco bono tanto che calli il terzo. Et l’erba sia tagliata minuta. Et quando sera tiepida, la getta gio per la gola con l’inbutto di corno per forza. Poi torai m. uno dela ditta erba savina tagliela minuta et dalla a mangiare con la semola et li darai da bere li beveroni caldi dali a 3 ore. Et tienlo caldo quanto tu poi. Poi torai del erba iva m. 2 et tagliela minuta et falla soffrigiere in la padella con olio comune. Poi l’acomoda cossi calda sopra ale rene e ali fianchi che la vi stia suso. Et cosi farai 2 volte al giorno e presto, per dei gratia, guarira. E de raro secreto e de statto piu volte esperimentato.
Item a liberare presto una bestia che abia li dolori.
Da a mangiare la radice del cocumero asinio al animale infermo et subito guarira. Et etia[m] se tu dirai queste parolle tocandoli il corpo overo inel orechia dritta per 3 volte subito guarira. Vz. ‘Quando christus natus fuit omnes dolor factus fuit. Fuge dolor, fuge dolor + quia dominus te perseguitur.’ Et presto, per dei gratia, il cavallo sera liberato.
Item ali dolori che viene al cavallo per scaldare et raffredare.
Nota per tutti li boni rispetti quando tu vai ala messa dela meza notte di natale la quale se dimanda la messa di sancta anastasia, + quando il prete dice il pater noster, dillo ancora tu conesso lui. Et quando vorai aiutare il cavallo, metteli le mane sopra al orechia dritta et dirai 3 pater noster con 3 ave marie et fali sopra 3 + a onore dela sancta trinita et di sancta anastasia con comemoratione di quella messa che tu udisti quella notte quando dicesti il pater noster col prete. Poi falli bon letto et non li mancare che presto guarira.
Cavallo che avesse la tosse overo fusse infredato o bolso.
Rx. dele radice di raffano no. 6 e botiro onze 6 et 4 capi d’aglio e pepi onza s. Et ogni cosa sia ben pisto minutamente et incorpora insieme. Et ogni matina di bon ora dagliene a mangiare tanta quanta e un ovo per spatio de 15 giorni. Et subito meteli il morso in bocca et lasselo cossi per 2 o 3 ore chel non mangi. Poi li darai il suo beverone e non molto e presto guarira. Et lo mantiene caldo in la stalla con la sua copertina. E questo e provato.
Item. Cavallo bolso farlo guarire.
Torai una prevenda d’orzo che sia netta di polvere e di terra et fallo bolire con assai acqua tanto chel creppi. Poi lo cola et premi fora l’orzo col torchietto et meti questa sustantia con la bolitura et metivi drento m. uno de orticha et m. 2 de erba savina, tagliata minuta et ritorna a fare bolire ogni cosa insieme per um poco. Poi col tuo ingnegno darai da bere questa bolitura al cavallo per 10 o 15 giorni et guarira. Et tienelo in calda et farai bolire con l’orzo meza libra di lardo di porco mastio giovine.
Item. Cavallo che sia infredato, presto farlo guarire.
Rx. agrimonia m. uno tagliata minuta et rubache di lauro m. ½ fatte in polvere suttile et dala a mangiare al tuo cavallo infredato. Poi dalli da bere acqua bianca, cioe beverone, et quando li darai da bere, metteli in bocca una pezza ritorta in modo di morso et che la sia onta con olio laurino. Poi che l’aveva bevto, falo passegiare per un pezzo con la sua coperta. Poi lo mena in stalla et chel stia caldo che presto guarira, avendone bono custodia como e ditto disopra.
Chel tuo cavallo corera piu che tutti li altri e tutti li vincera inel corre et advertisse quando comincia acorrere, dirai queste parole et non dire altro. ‘Christus abiel. Christus abiel. Christus abieli.’ Et non dire altro et correre piu che tutte li altri. E questo e provato ineli barbari.