[English translation]

To cause the period of a woman. This has been tested.
Take 1 handful or more each of fine mint, hyssop and corn poppy, that is red poppy, and dry them in the shade and make very fine powder of them. Then give a dose of 1 ounce or 1 ½ ounces to the woman, each time according to the person, if one is more affected than another. Incorporate 2 scruples of saffron in the dose and give it with 4 ounces of water of maiden hair fern or good white wine or mutton broth or with a fresh egg and it should be warm. Give it early in the morning in the form of a syrup and she should lie down for at least 2 hours and be careful. She should take this beverage for at least 3 mornings in a row. Soon she will have her period and even one who has never had one. In the evening when she goes to sleep, she should rub the body, the vagina and the stomach with the following oils that should be well warmed and she should be well wrapped with warm cloths. Take 3 ounces of laurel oil, 2 ounces of oil of camomile and 1 ounce of white lily oil and add ½ ounce of sweet almond oil and 1 scruple of whole saffron. Heat all together well until the oil takes up the odor of the saffron and she should rub the body with this very warm from the throat down to the bottom and she should stay very warm. You should know that very soon, with divine aid, the menstruation that you expect will come. This secret has worked very effectively in some nuns, giving thanks always to God and observing the rules given above. You will not seek other medicine because this one is the most approved.

Another to cause the period of a woman.
Take 1 handful each of the herb juniper, maiden hair fern, burnet and nettle seeds. Then take 3 flasks of very good white wine and boil everything together until it reduces one third. Then strain it and press the herbs well on the press. Then return this boiled liquid to the fire and put therein 1 dram of crushed saffron and ½ dram each of myrrh, mastic and incense and let it barely boil. Then remove it from the fire and let it cool and strain it. Save it in a glass flask in a cool place, well covered. In the evening when you go to sleep take 4 ounces of it, tepid, and in the morning take 3 ounces in the form of a syrup. Continue this for 3 or 4 days. Those persons who have tested this give true testimony of having attained the desired outcome in great part, if not fully, and the women have been satisfied.

Another to cause menstruation in several ways.
Take a root of white lily and roast it. Then crush it and add 1 ounce of laurel oil and ½ ounce of rose oil and incorporate them well together. Then in the evening when you go to sleep, make it very warm and rub all the body and wrap on cloths and it soon softens the hard body and helps the spleen wonderfully and causes menstruation when it is done several times.

Another for causing menstruation.
Take 1 ounce of nettle seeds and 1 dram each of myrrh and mastic. Make everything into fine powder and give it with grape must or white wine to drink. It makes menstruation return rapidly.

Another for causing menstruation.
Take seed of
masseroni
, seed of yellow violet and also the true yellow violet, making everything into powder. Incorporate 2 scruples of saffron well. Then give it to drink with broth or white wine several times and you will see that it brings out the menstrual material.

Another for causing menstruation.
Take 1 ounce of yeast, 1 ounce of peony root, ½ ounce of madder, ordinary oil that is old and 2 scruples of saffron and mix everything and make it warm and give it to the sick one to drink in the evening and soon the menstruation will come.
Take artemisia and boil it and take that fomentation and put it on the pubis. Take some juice of the same herb with myrrh and saffron and make a tent soaked in this juice and put it in the vagina and it will bring the menstruation quickly.
Furthermore, take 3 ounces of roses and boil it in 2 lb. of sweet white wine and reduce it 2/3 and give it warm to drink with saffron. Give the juice of the climbing vine that grows in the hedges to the sick one to drink with honeyed water and soon the menstruation will come.

Another to cause the period of the woman.
Take dried rock alum and mix it with strong vinegar and put it warm on the navel in the evening and soon the period will come.

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[Italian transcript]

Ad provocandum tempus ad muglierum, probatum est.
Rx. menta fina, ysopo e rosolazi, cioe papaveri rossi, ana m. uno o piu, et fali seccare al ombra et fane polvere sutilissima. Poi ne darai per presa ala donna onza j overo onze js per volta secondo la persona, una piu stiticha de l’altra, et incorporali drento scropuli 2 di zafferano inela ditta presa et dalla con acqua di capel venere onze iij o vino bianco bono o brodo di castrato overo con uno ovo frescho et chel sia caldo. Et dalla la matina per tempo a modo di syropo et se ripossa sopra al manco 2 ori et stia in bona guardia et questa bevanda la facci al manco per 3 matine continue. Et presto li verra il suo tempo et etiam che mai piu non li fussino venuti. Et la sera quando tu vai a dormire, ongiti il corpo et la natura et lo stomaco con questi olii et che siano ben caldi con pezze calde di sopra e bene infassata. Torai olio laurino onze iij e di camomilla onze ij e de gilii bianchi onza j et mettivi olio di mandole dolce onza s e scropulo uno di zafferano intiero et fallo poi tutto insieme scaldare bene tanto che l’olio ti riasse l’odore del zafferano et con esso ben caldo ti ongi il corpo tutto dala golla fingioso in fondo e sta ben calda. Sappi che presto, presto, con lo addiutorio divino, presto verra quello mestruo che tu sai. Et questo secreto a operato in alchune monache molto valorosamente ringratiandone sempre in dio et observando l’ordine sopra detto. Non cercherai altra medicina perche la e aprobatissima.
Item a provochare il tempo suo alla donna.
Rx. l’erba savina e capel venere e pinpinella e somente de orticha, ana m. uno. Poi torai 3 fiaschi di vino bianco bonissimo et farai bolire ogni cosa insieme tanto chel calli la terza parte. Poi lo colerai e premendo le erbe bene sotto al torchietto. Poi ritornerai la ditta bolitura al foco et mettivi drento zafferano pesto drama j e mirra e mastice e incenso, ana drama s, et lasselo che apeni levi il bolore. Poi levelo dal foco et lassela raffredare et colalo et conservelo in fiascho di vetro in loco fresco ben coperto. Et la sera quando vai a dormire ne piglia onze iiij chel sia al quanto tiepido et la matina ne piglierai onze iij in modo di syropo et questo lo continua per 3 o 4 giorni che quelle persone chel ano provato ne rendeno vera testimonianza di avere auto lo intento suo se non apieno una gran parte e la persona si trova satisfatta.
Item a provocarlo il mestruo in piu modi.
Rx una radice di gillio bianco et fala arostire. Poi la pesterai et agiongeli olio laurino onza j e olio roxato onza s et incorpora bene insieme. Poi la sera quando tu vai a dormire falo scaldare bene e ongiti tutto il corpo con sopra panni e infassata et presto molifica il corpo duro e zova molto mirabilmente alla milza et provocha il mestruo, facendolo piu volte per essere cosa experimentata.
Item ad provocandum mestruum.
Torai somenta di orticha onza j, mirra e mastici, ana drama j, e ogni cosa fatto in polvere suttila et datta a bere con mosto overo vin bianco, presto lo fa tornare.
Item ad provocantum mestruum.
Torai somente di masseroni e somente di viole gialde et etiam le viole propie gialde fatto ogni cosa in polvere con scropuli 2 di zafferano bene incorporato. Poi dane a bere con brodo o vino bianco piu volte et vedrai amenare materia assai.
Item ad provocandum mestruum.
Torai del lievito onza j e radice di peonia onza j et radice dela robia onza s et olio comune del vechio e scropuli 2 zafferano et ogni cosa incorporato, falo scaldare et dallo a bere al inferma la sera e presto li verra.
Torai artimisia, fala bolire et ricevi quella fumentacione et metti l’erba sul petignone et farai del succio de ditta erba con mirra e zafferano et farai taste insuppati in ditto succio e metti nela n[atur]a e menerati e presto.
E piu torai rozza onze iij et fala bolire in lb. 2 di vino bianco dolce e falo calare li 2 terzi et dalo a bere caldo con zafferano. Et dali a bere suchio di volublie che va super le siepi con aqua melata e presto verra il mestruo.
Item a provocare il tempo ale donne.
Torai alume di rocha arso et lo distempera con aceto forte et metilo sul belico la sera caldo e presto verra.