[English translation]


Another prayer for the falling sickness to carry with you.
Viz.: 'God was, God is and God will be. So as the body is lifted, God on high who is the Lord, the consecrated host and the living flesh, as you are the Son of the Virgin Mary, free me, your servant (name), in the name of God and of the Virgin Mary and of Saint Bartholomew and of the Holy Trinity. So be it. Father + Son + Holy Spirit +, Amen.'
Let us pray: 'God who through your Apostle Bartholomew in the temple of Astaroth freed the weak daughter of king
Polum
from being harassed by demons, may we be worthy, through the merits of his passion, to be freed from the incurable falling sickness and also from all evil, through our Lord, Jesus Christ, your Son.'

Prayer for falling sickness.
This sign of the Holy Cross is powerful against the falling sickness, viz: first draw this cross with these letters as you see on the page and when you want to put this around the neck say, and have said, 3 Pater Noster and 3 Ave Maria to honor God and the Holy Trinity and the 3 magi and carry it always around the neck and with the aid of God soon you will be cured. It is tested. Also add to this note, 3 peony roots and 3 peony seeds and 3 castor bean seeds and put them together and say over them the Mass of Saint Cornelius and write the prayer for Saints Cosmas and Damian and for the Angel Raphael. Carry this near you with devotion and you will be cured.
[There is a large cross with writing that has been inked out in the MS]
Most marvelous water of swallows, more than can be believed. It is made in this way for falling sickness.
Take young swallows and dry them and pulverize finely the quantity that you will want. Then take the same amount of musk and mix together. Then pour in enough good vinegar and distill it in glass and keep this water. Its virtues are written below, viz:
First, taken on an empty stomach it is the right medicine against the falling sickness, chosen because it is effective even if the person may have been suffering for 40 years.

Another.
Taken on an empty stomach it cures delirium in nine days.... 38

Another.
Above all other medicines, it makes the head good, cleans the stomach, soothes and comforts the nerves of the chest, removes nerve paralysis, increases natural acts and warms anyone with chills.

Another.
Taken on an empty stomach with hyssop it cures the dropsy that is caused by cold and drives away quartan fever.

Another.
Taken with hyssop it cures headache and makes persons sleep, eat with appetite and digest food. It helps if a pregnant woman takes it because she may avoid losing a baby in the womb.

Another.
The juice of rue pushed up the nose when there has been an accident, heals it at once. Insufflate the juice in the nose.
The membrane within which kittens develop, when pulverized and given in a potion to the patient, is useful for the tissue of the womb.

Another.
Also it is useful to have one of those nails that hold the candles when the church is consecrated. Carry it with you. Then, when the patient falls, drive this nail in where he hits his head and he will get up cured.
[One remedy is inked out in the MS]
Be advised that when you gather the root of the peony, it must be picked in the autumn in the waning of the moon and its seed is gathered when the moon is full so that when it is wanted for the falling sickness, you will use this water with certainty for this sickness. It has been tested many times by Monsignor Ber[----]o.

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[Italian transcript]

[One remedy is unreadable].
Item. Policino per il mal caduco per portare adosso.
Vz: ‘Dio fu, e dio e, e dio sera. Si come si leva il creatore alto dio che le il signiore, hostia sacgrata e carne viva, si come tu sei figliolo dela vergine maria liberami servo tuo A al nome de dio et dela vergine maria et di santo bert[olome]o et dela sancta trinita et cosi sia. Pater + filius + spiritus sanctus + amen.’
Oremus: ‘Deus qui per apostolum tuum bartholomeum languidos in templo Astarot et regis polum filiam a demonibus vexatam liberare dignatus est tribue nobisque sumus per merita passionis eius ab omni incurabili caduco morbo ipsius intercessione etiam ab omnibus malis liberari per dominum nostrum, yesum christum filium tuum qui t[e] cum vi.’
Oratio per il mal caducho.
Hoc signum sancte + valet ad morbum caduchum. Prima scrive questa croce + con queste lettere come tu vedi in carta et quando tu la voi mettere al collo, dirai et farai dire 3 pater noster et 3 ave maria ha onore di dio et dela sancta trinita et deli 3 magi et portalo cossi sempre al collo et con l’aiutto di dio, presto guarirai. E di aprobato. Anco li agiongi al ditto breve 3 radice di peonia con 3 granelli dela sua semente et 3 granella di seme di giralsole et metteli insieme et fali dire sopra la messa di santo cornelio et li scrive la oratione di santo gosimo et damiano et di l’angelo raffaello et porta adosso con divotione, e guarirai.
Acqua irundinum mirabilissma plus quam credi possit et sic fit pro mal caduco.
Rx. hirundines iuvenes et dissicam e pulveriza suptiliter in quantitatem quam vuolveris. Postea accipe tantundem castore et simul miscie. Postea infundantur cum aceto bono quantum sat erit. Postea distillentur ad vetrum et hec aqua habe et infra scriptas virtutes, videlicet:
Prima sumpta ieiuno stomacho est vera medecina contra morbum caducum ex quacunque causa pervinientem etiam si homo passus fuiset per 40 annos.
Item.
Sumpta ieiuno stomacho curat fernesin in novem dies.
Item.
Super omnes medicinas facit buonum cerebrum, purgat stomacum et pectus, nervos molificat et confortat et radicem paralisis de nervis extrait et augmentat naturam et infrigidatos homines calefacit.
Item.
Sumpta ieiuno stomaco capta cum ysopo curat idropisim ex frigida causa pervinientem et febres quartanas depellit.
Item.
Cum ysopo sumpta curat dolorem capitis et facit hominem dormire bene et comedere et digerire. Caveat pregnans mulier ne eam sumat quoniam partum in ventre nec caret.
Item.
Il suco dela ruta butato inel naso quando li viene l’acidente subito si sanera, soffia il suco nel naso.
Item.
Il panicolo dove nasse li gatuci, polverizato et datto in poto al paciente vale panicolo i matrice.
Item.
Ancora vale avere uno di quelli chiodi che tiene le candele quando si consacra la chiesa portandolo adosso. E ancora quando il paciente cade et dove lui batte la testa tu li ficchi el ditto chiodo et lui se levera salvo.
Advertisse quando tu ricoglie la radice dela peonia vole essere colta in l’auctono in la declinatione dela luna et il suo seme se ricoglie quando li e fornita la luna et questa si ricoglie cossi che la vole per il ditto mal caduco et questa aqua farai del sicuro che al ditto male e statta piu volte aprobate da m[onsignore] ber[---]o.