[English translation]

The virtues of celandine that in itself contains an elixir for mankind.
Take half a handful each of wormwood, anise, betony, basil, butcher's broom, mountain mint, sedge, cedar, sweet flag, flowers of camomile, gentian, galingale, St. John's wort, sea holly, lavender, mint, marjoram, Roman pellitory, pennyroyal, burnet saxifrage, pellitory of-the-wall, sage, bran dust, camel's hay, French lavender, escarole, savory, asparagus, spike lavender, bee orchid, tamarind, thyme, valerian and zedoary. Spices: 1 ounce each of white incense, mastic, cloves, cubebs, long pepper, tragacanth, cinnamon, cardamon and zinc carbonate, and 3 lb. each of fragrant white wine and white honey. First take the herb celandine with the root, stem, leaf, flower and seed in whatever quantity is needed to extract about 10 lb. with a flask and a half of water. Cut it minutely. It should be gathered it early in the morning during the half moon. Put it in a flask and put it under manure and let it stay warm for 20 days. Then remove it and distill the flask with its cover and its receptacle that has the joints well wrapped so that nothing escapes. Make the fire very low and it will distill for you a very clear and lustrous water. Then put this water in a flask and put therein the above spices, all made into powder, and the honey, wine and anise. Stopper it and put it in the sun for 10 days. Then put in all of the above herbs, flowers and roots, sliced and cut finely and let them stay thus with everything together fermenting for 2 whole days in the sun or on warm ashes. Then distill it with a very slow fire in a water bath with the cap and the receptacle and the joints closed with cloths and dough and set it up with bands so the flask stays steady in the water and does not move. When a third of this water has been distilled, watch it well and you will see the water change color. At once put a new receptacle to collect the second water and when you see that no more comes out by continuing the low fire, then put on another receptacle and increase the fire to lively. Oil colored red will come out. Put everything in its place in glass ampules that stay well sealed and save these for your needs. Below we will tell some of their virtues and some have been tested. Viz.
The first water is clear and lustrous and has the property that it is powerful in all infirmities of the human body, both warm and cold, which is in itself a secret of nature.

Another.
One who drinks this water and washes all the body carefully will at once get rid of scabies and lepra, quickly and without doing anything else.

Another.
It will soon cure one who has sickness within, that is distress of the heart and fainting.

Another.
Drinking a little of it will cure one who has defect of the lungs or difficulty breathing.

Another.
Washing a swollen face with it several times, firms up the face.

Another.
It modifies the blood and gives great hope that soon one will be cured if one who is sick drinks this water for 3 mornings in the form of a warm syrup.

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[Italian transcript]

Le virtu dela cilidonia che in se contiene ‘lexir del huomo.
Rx. assentio, anasi, bertonica, basilico, bruscho, calamento, cipero, cedro, calamo aromatico, fiori di camomilla, gentiana, galangha, ipericon, iringi, lavandola, menta, magiorana, piratro, pulegio, pimpinella, paritaria, salvia, spodio, squinanto, stichados, schariola, sanoregia, sparagi, spigo nardo, satirionis, tramarino, timmo, valeriana e zedovaria, ana m. s. Specie: incenso bianco, mastice, garoffani, cubebe, pepi longo, draganti, cinamomo, cardamomo, tucia non preparata, ana onza j, e vino bianco hodoriffero e mele bianco, ana lb. iij. Et imprima piglierai del erba cilidonia con la radice, fusto, foglie, fiore e seme et quella quantita che a te pare che tu ne possi cavarne un fiascho e mezo di aqua como sarebe a dire lb. 10. Et tagliela minuta et colta la matina per tempo a luna sema et metila in una boccia et metila sotto al litame e che la stia calda per 20 giorni. Poi cavela et con la ditta boccia falla destillare col suo capello, el suo recipiente et ale congionture bene infassato che niente respiri et fali il foco molto lento et te stillera un aqua chiarissima et lustrante. Poi meterai la ditta aqua in una boccia et mettivi drento le preditte speciarie e tutte fate in polvere, el mele, el vino, e li anesi et turela e mettila al sole per 10 giorni. Poi li meterai drento tutte le predete erbe, fiori e radice, machate e tagliate minutamente. Et lassele stare cosi ogni cosa insieme in putrefacione per 2 di naturali al sole overo sopra ala cenere calda. Poi la destillerai con foco molto lentissimo e a bagno maria col suo capello, el recipiente e turato le congionture con peze impastate et conzegna che la boccia stia ferma inel aqua che ella non se rimena et quando sera venuto fora un terzo dela ditta aqua, guardali bene che tu vederai l’aqua a mutare colore et presto li presenta uno recipiente a riccogliere la seconda aqua. Et quando vederai che non ne viene, continuandoli il foco pur lento, alora li rimetti un altro recipiente et cresseli il foco galiardo l’olio in colore rosso. Et meterai ogni cosa da sua posta in ampolle di vetro e stiano ben turate. Et quelle conserva ali bisogni pero che qua disot[t]o diremo dele sue virtu e im parte aprobate.
La prima aqua sie chiara e lustra et a queste proprieta, cioe che ella vale a tutte le infermita del corpo humano, cosi calde como fredde, la quale a in se uno secreto di natura.
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A chi ne bevera et laverassi tutta la persona sutilmente, subito manda via la rogna et la lebra prestamente senza fare altro.
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A chi avesse male di drento, cioe passion di core e mancamento, presto lo guarisse.
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A chi avesse difetto di polmone overo stentasse a respirare bevene um poco e guarira.
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Consolida il volto impiegato lavandosi piu volte con essa.
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Chi fusse infermo beva dela ditta aqua per 3 matine calda a modo de syropo li mondifica il sangue et li da bona speranza che presto ne guarira.