[English translation]

Against the pain of the gouts, perfect electuary and a wonderful secret.
Take 1 ounce each of cold
diadraganti
and juice of quince, 2 drams each of autumn crocus and ginger, ½ ounce each of excellent turbith, excellent manna and rose honey and 1 ½ drams of agaric. Then take 1 lb. of fine sugar and mix everything together and these things should be finely pulverized. Make it into an electuary or into a solid form. The dose is ½ ounce depending on the effect. By continuing it for a time, it will greatly relieve the pain of gout.
Take the pills written below at least 4 times a year, that is in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Take more or fewer according to how you feel and when you take them be careful for that day because they debilitate the body greatly. These are the pills, viz. Take 2 scruples of asafoetida, 1 ½ scruples of troches of agaric, 2 ½ scruples of pills of autumn crocus and 2 drams of excellent rhubarb. Mix these with water of ground pine and make a dough from which form the pills as you wish and save them in a wooden container and you will find them wonderful for you.

Another, the best confection for gout.
Tke ½ dram each of mace, galingale and cardamon, 1 1/2 drams each of cinnamon and nutmeg, 2 ½ drams of ginger and 1 lb. each of white sugar and sea grapes and enough rose water. Incorporate everything together following the rules to make other aromatic confections. Give this confection to the patient when he goes to sleep and early in the morning. Reposing for a while in the evening is very helpful in alleviating gout pains. Also these help him to retain some appetite. He should put off sleeping with his wife and he will find himself much improved. Sometimes he will feel the pains but they will always be diminishing.
Against the pain of gout, excellent pills and a most true secret from a judge.
Take 1 dram each of high quality myrrh, betony, Armenian red clay, primula and ground pine, 2 drams each of burnet saxifrage, germander and hepatic aloe and ½ dram of crocus. Mix each with sage or ground pine water, rose honey and primula water and compound everything together and make a paste from which one makes three pills the size of a chick pea to take by mouth before eating either in the morning or the evening. This is effective.

Another, very worthy pills for gout.
Take 1 ounce of hepatic aloe, 1 dram of saffron, ½ ounce each of myrrh and mastic and 2 drams of incense. Compound all these things with fennel water and make a paste and form your pills as usual. In the evening when you go to sleep take a dose of ½ dram and you will see very wonderful relief of the pain of gout especially if it is the warm gout.
A wonderful and most effective ointment against the pain of gout. It has been tested.
Take a fat, uncastrated cat, kill it and skin it and throw away the head and the insides and nothing else. Then cut it up very minutely with 2 lb. of old lard from a male pig. Grind everything well together and combine with these herbs: take 1 handful each of betony, primula and burnet saxifrage, 1 dram of saffron, 1 dram each of cinnamon, incense, ginger and nutmeg, all cut and incorporated well. Then take a fat goose, plucked and dressed whole and put all the above in the body. Fill it and tie it to a skewer......

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[Italian transcript]

Contra al dolore dele gotte, lattovario perfetissimo e de secreto mirabile.
Rx. diadraganti frigidi, succi citoniorum, ana onza j, hermodactillorum, zenziberis, ana drame ij, turbith eletti, manne elette, mellis rosati, ana onza s, agarici drame js. Poi torai zucharo fino lb. j, et mesida ogni cosa insieme et sia sutilmente spolverizato le cose. Et fiat elettuarium ut in forma solida et dosis eius est onza s cum custodia usquem ad operationem. Et continuandolo a tempi molto ti levera il dolore dele gotte.
Usando di queste pinole qui sotto scritte le quale se anno apigliare al manco 4 volte al anno, cioe in primavera, nela estate, nel auctono et inel verno. Et piu e meno ne pigliera secondo che a te parra et quando tu li pigli, starai per quel giorno di guardia perche indebiliscano al quanto la natura. E queste sono li pinule, vz. Pille: Rx. pillularum foetidarum scropuli ij, agaricis trocis scatarum scropuli js, pillarum ermodactillorum scropuli ijs, reubarbari eletti drame ij. Poi missie cum aqua ive et fiat pasta de qua formentur pillarum ad libitum et reservetur in vaso ligneo et tibi videtur mirabillia.
Item a le gotte, confettione optima.
Rx macis, galange, gardamomi, ana drama s, cinamomi, nucis muscate, ana drame js, zenziberis drame ijs, zuchari albi, uve marine, ana lb. j, et aquam rosatam quam sufficit. Et incorporerai ogni cosa insieme secundo l’ordine che si tiene a fare le altre confettione aromatiche. Et di questo confetto ne darai al paciente la sera quando va a dormire et la matina per tempo, ripossandosi sopra al quanto, il quale li sera molto propitio a levarli il dolore dele gotte. Aiutandosi ancor lui dela bocha in ritenersi di alcuni suoi apetitti che li sono contrarie et dorma alongi ala sua donna et trovera miglioramento ali ditti dolori che chiasi volti li sentira e sempre anderanno in diclinatione.
Contra al dolore dele gotte, pillule nobile e de verissimo secreto ad onem judicium.
Rx. mirra eletta, bertonica, bolarminio, arteticha, iva, ana drama j, pinpinella, camedrios et aloe patico, ana drame ij, croci drama s. Misce omnia cum aque salvie ut ive et mele roxato e aqua di arteticha et componi ogni cosa insieme et farai una pasta de qua capiat ante comestionem oris tribus sive in mane, sive in sera ad quantitatem ciceris et hoc spertum est.
Item pillule per gotte molto degne.
Rx. aloe epatico onza j, zafferano drama j, mirra, mastice, ana onza s, incenso drame ij. Et compone tutte le preditte cose con suco di finochio et fara pasta et formerai le tue pillule secondo l’ordinario. Et la sera quando vai a dormire, ne piglierai una presa drama s et vedrai cosa molto miraculosa alevarti il dolore dele gotte abenche le siano calide.
Contra al dolore dele gotte, unto mirabile et valorosissimo. Di provata.
Rx. uno gatto che sia ben grasso e non castrato amazalo e scorticalo e getta via il capo e l’interriora e non altro. Poi lo taglia molto minutissimamente et con lb. 2 di lardo di porcho maschio e chel sia vechio. Ben pisto ogni cosa insieme et con queste erbe e composicione. Torai bertonica, arteticha, pimpinella, ana m. uno, zafferano drama j, cinamomo, incenso, zenzero, noce moscate, ana drama j, tutte tagliate e bene incorporate. Poi piglierai un ocha grassa pelata e conza como la destare et mettivi drento inel corpo tutto le preditto pieno e cosela et la infilza inelo schilone….