[English translation] The herb milzara or dead nettle that has a white spot in the middle of the leaf and grows around hedges. This herb is called milzara because it readily cures the spleen and is also called lataiola because in women who eat it and are nursing it increases the milk as does the herb burdock in those who have lost it through an impediment. In the Greek vocabulary it is called galiopsi which is to say 'milk'. It has been shown many times to cure the spleen. I tell you that you should gather some of this herb in the half moon and dry it in the shade and wind and make very fine powder of it. Take one spoonful in a fresh egg early in the morning and continue for 15 to 20 days. Do not do anything intemperate. You should know that in the section on curing the spleen, I say first purge the spleen and soon, with the aid of God, you will be cured. If you will eat the plant raw, you will be cured sooner. This has been tested.... 126 The herb scabiosa and some of its virtues. Take the herb scabiosa in the waning of the moon when it is nearly mature and dry it in the shade and make very fine powder of it. Put it on a sore or ulcerated leg that first should be washed several times with warm wine. It heals this wonderfully. If you put it on a gall on the back of a horse with powder of a burnt old shoe, very soon it makes a cure so that the skin returns. Likewise, if you grind the herb between two lodestones and put it on warm, it soon cures. It is good in either way, in herb or in powder. Also it is powerful in distress of the stomach and especially in catarrh that is in the lungs or in heavy cough. Eat the herb or drink some of its distilled water. It is of great help in removing any kind of itch. With the powder one makes a good unguent and it has many other properties that I do not write down. The herb rue and some of its tested virtues. Rue of the gardens is warm and dry in the third degree and the wild rue in the fourth degree. Taking some of the cultivated variety removes flatulence and increases the humidity of the body and greatly helps the lower intestine. Drinking a decoction of it takes away the flatulence and the tortion and pain in the body caused by viscous humors. Cooked in oil and made into suppositories, it dissolves the excessive flatulence that accompanies excessive humors that envelop the intestines. It is also powerful in cloudiness in the eyes and in poor vision in any way that you eat it, either as the herb or in powder or cooked. Also bathing the eyes with some of its distilled water alternately with rose water in the morning, clarifies the vision greatly and also has many other virtues. To stop the flow of blood from wounds or veins that are pierced or broken or have burst in the chest. Take the same amount each of sarcocol gum, mummy, Armenian red clay and dragon's blood gum and make them into very fine powder. Mix them and put this on sores where the blood flows from the vein and it will be stopped at once. If it is a wound, say over it this holy prayer that has been tested many times and all have been cured through God's grace. Viz., '+ Cross of Christ aid me. + Blood stay fast in yourself as Christ did in himself. Cross of Christ save me. Blood stay in your vein as Christ did in his pain. Cross of Christ defend me. Blood stay fast and strong as Christ did at his death. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. + + + .' Say it three times over the wound with 3 Pater Noster and 3 Ave Maria and have the patient say them also. Then attach the little prayer around the neck and say it for 3 mornings in a row and, through God's grace, the blood will be stopped. It is tested. ---------- [Italian transcript] Erba milzara che fa inel mezo dela foglia quella machia bianca e ne nasse intorno ale siepe. La ditta erba se dimanda milzara per guarire facilmente la milza et etiam se adimanda lataiola perche quelle donne che la mangia e sono dedite alattare li fa abondare il latte como fa la erba barbena a chi la perduto per impedimento, perche in volabulo greco se adimanda galiopsi e non vole dire altro che latte. Et per essere statta aprobata piu di tante volte per guarire la milza, io te dico che se tu ricogliera dela ditta erba a luna sema et farla seccare al ombra e al vento et farne polvere sutilissima et darne uno chugiaro in uno ovo frescho la matina per tempo continuando per 15 o 20 giorni non facendo altro dissordine. Conose dira al capitulo del guarire la milza purgato che serai prima et presto, con lo aiutto di dio, tu ne guarirai. Et se tu la mangierai cosi cruda, piu presto guarirai. E di aprovata. Erba schabiosa et alcune dele sue virtu. Rx. l’erba schabiosa inel calare dela luna et fala secare al ombra e fane polvere sutilissima et che la sia apresso che matura. Et ne meterai sopra a una piaga o ganbaraza che prima la sia lavata con vino caldo piu volte, mirabilmente la la salda. Et se tu ne meterai sopra a un guidarescho di uno cavallo con polvere di scarpa vechia brussata, presto presto lo fa guarire che la pelle li ritorna et similmente fara l’erba pista tra 2 pietre vive e meti suso calda presto la guarisse. Voi in erba o in polvere in tutti li modi ella i e bona. Et etiam vale a tutte le passione di stomaco et maxime a cattarosi e che a la polmognaia overo tosse grassa a mangiare de ditta erba overamente a bere dela sua aqua stillata et e di molta propicia a mandare via ogni sorte di rogna et con la sua polvere se ne fa bono unguento et etiam a e di molte altre proprieta che io non scrivo. Erba ruta et alcune dele sue virtu aprobate. Rx. la ruta deli orti la quale e calida e secca in terzo grado e la salvatica in quarto. Et mandiando dela domestica dissolve la ventosita e fa humido il corpo et giova molto ale intestine di sotto et bevta la sua dicotione tol via la ventosita e le torcione et il dolore del corpo per vischosi humori et cotta in olio et fatto crestieri dissolve la ventosita grossa che sta atachata ali grossi humori et invilupa ti ale intestine. Et etiam vale ala caligine deli ochii et ala debilita del vedere in tutti li modi che tu ne mangi in erba o in polvere o cotta. Etiam dela sua aqua stillata bagniandoti li ochii con oltertanta aqua roxa la matina molto ti clarifica la vista et etiam a di molte altre virtu. A stagnare il sangue de i ferrite o de vene di fusseno passate o rotte o crepate inel petto. Rx. sarcocolla, mumia, bolarminio, sangue di drago, ana, et ne farai polvere sutilissima incorporate insieme et ne meterai sun le piaghe dove nasse il sangue per le vene e presto si stagnera. Et se la e ferrita dilli sopra questa sancta oratione che piu volte e statta aprobata e tutti sono per dei gratia guariti, vz. ‘+ Crux christi adiuva me. + Sangue sta in te come fe[ce] christo in se. + Christi salva me. Sangue sta in la vena tuua come fe[ce] christo in la sua pena. + Christi difende me. Sangue sta fisso e forte come fe[ce] christo ala sua morte. In nomine Patris + et filii + et spiritus sancti + Amen + + + .’ Et dilla 3 volte sopra a la piaga con 3 pater noster e 3 ave marie et fali dire anche al paciente. Poi li tacherai il policino al collo et dilla per 3 matine continue et per dei gratia il sangue si stagnera. E provata.