[English translation] For the woman whom pregnancy makes ill and to restore her to health. Take fine mint, hyssop, corn poppy that is red poppy, each the same amount, and make fine powder of them and save it for your needs. When you want to use it take one ounce or an ounce and a half of this powder and put therein 3 scruples of ground saffron and incorporate everything together. Then give it to the sick one in a fresh egg. She should take it early in the morning and should stay in repose one hour or more. But in the evening, rub all the body with 1/2 ounce each of oil of camomile and of white lily, 1 ounce of oil of berries and 10 threads of saffron. Make it very warm and rub the body and wrap on a warm cloth and she should stay warm. In the morning she should take an egg as described above and soon it will make her contented and without pain. If this does not work the first time, do it again the following evening and you will have the desired result. Another for sickness of pregnancy when there is pain. Take laurel berries and make fine powder and give the patient a spoonful in warm red wine in the evening or the morning, according to the hour when the pain assaults her. When she takes it, she should stay in repose. Do this once or twice or more, according to when you find that it works, and soon you will cure her. Make a fomentation under the nose with an old shoe and soon you will cure the sickness of pregnancy. Another, a prayer against sickness of pregnancy, viz. 'I implore you, womb of flesh and blood, womb of sorrow, by the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Amen, by the seat of majesty, by the holy birth and by all the glory of the heavens, by the day of judgment and by the four rivers of Paradise, the Jordan, Phison, Tigris and Euphrates, return to your correct place in the servant [name]of God, and by the blessed Virgin Mary. The Lord disposes. Without pain, the spirit overcomes, the spirit rules + Amen. + So be it. + So be it. + So be it. +, in the name of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit, Amen.' Another to cause the period in women and also for one who may have a fever. Take lesser comfrey and grind it. Then put it in a little sack, as long and wide as a finger, and carefully put it in the vagina in the evening when you go to sleep and it will cause the period wonderfully. Eat some pennyroyal and other aromatic herbs for 8 days and soon you will be cured. It is true. Another to cause menstruation immediately in some women. Take one dram each of musk, sweet flag and celery seed and pulverize it well and at night when the woman goes to sleep she should take half with warm wine. From the other half make a suppository to be put in the vulva of the woman and menstruation will start. It is tested. Another to cause the period. Take the herb savin and extract juice and give it warm to the woman to drink and the period will come. Also take equal amounts of powdered savory and powdered creeping thyme and incorporate with clean honey. She should drink it with warm wine. It provokes the period rapidly in the ordinary way. Another to cause the period. Take water distilled from orris root. She should drink it with sugar. It cleans sickness within the womb. Also oil of iris is effective if the womb has come out. This can be resolved in some women if they eat 6 drams of this oil and when there is sickness in the womb it will be cured. Give 5 pills in the evening and it will do her good. Another to cause the period of women immediately. Take 3 tips of Mercury's herb and 3 of mallow and boil them in a jug of good white wine and put therein as much yeast from wheat as a chestnut and 2 scruples of whole saffron and boil it for ½ hour. Then strain it and press it well and give 4 ounces of it to drink in the form of a syrup early in the morning. In the evening wash between the legs downward with lye boiled with roses and camomile and in the same evening rub the body with a mixture of 2 ounces of laurel oil, 1 ounce each of oil of lily and camomile and 2 scruples of saffron and keep it warm and soon her period will come. Do this in the rising of the moon in its first, second, third or fourth quarter. ---------- [Italian transcript] Ala donna che la madre li fa male et li fatta venire al quanto dele sue rasone. Rx. menta fina, isopo, rosolaci cioe papaveri rossi, ana, et fane polvere suttila et la conserva ali tuoi bisogni. Et quando la vorai adoperare, pigliene un onza overo un onza e meza dela ditta polvere et metteli drento scropuli 3 di zafferano pisto et incorpora ogni cosa insieme. Poi la darai al inferma in uno ovo frescho. Et lo piglia la matina per tempo e starai in riposso un ora o piu. Ma la sera ongeti tutto il corpo con olio di camomilla e di gilii bianchi, ana onza s, e olio di robache onza j, con 10 fila di zafferan drento et fallo ben scaldare e ongiti il corpo et sopra peze calde e infassa e sta calda. Et la matina piglierai l’ovo sopra detto et presto vera li contenti tuoi senza dolore. Et se questa prima volta non ti fa, fala la seconda sera et averai l’intento tuo. Item al male di madre quando la dole. Torai cochole di lauro et fane polvere sutile et dane ala paciente uno chugiaro in vino rosso e caldo la sera overo la matina secondo l’ora chel dolore ti assalta, allora pigliela e starai in riposso et fallo una volta o dua o piu, secondo che tu ti troverai libera. E presto guarirai. Et fatti fumentacione sotto al naso con una scarpa vechia e presto guarirai del dolore dela madre. Item, policino contra al mal di madre, vz. ‘Coniuro te matris puposani, sanguineam matrem doloris per patrem et filii et spiritus sancti, amen, et per sedem maiestatis et per sanctam naturam et per omnes virtutes celorum et per diem judicii et per quatuor flumina paradisi, giordanis, per fison, per igitur et eufrates et revertas ad locum suum ordinarius famula dei A et per beate marie virginis, dominus constitut sine dolore, spiritus vincit, spiritus imperat + amen + fiat + fiat + fiat +, in nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti, amen.’ Item a provochare il tempo suo ale donne etiam che l’avesse la febre. Torai consolida minore et pestela. Poi la metti in uno sachettino longhetto e grosso un dito et con bel modo lo meti nela natura la sera quando vai a dormire e ti provochera mirabilmente et dali a mangiare del pulegio et altre herbe odoriffere per 8 giorni e presto guarirai. E li vera. Item ad provocandum mestrum statim alicui mulieri. Torai castoreo, acori, seminis appi, ana drama j, et bene spolverizati et in nocte quando vadit dormitum mulieri capeat medietatem cum vino calido et de alia medietate fiat suppositio in vulvam mulieris et vadetur mestrum, probatum. Item ad provocandum. Torai erba savina e trane suco et dane bere ala donna caldo et li vera. Et etiam la santurgia e serpillo, ana, spolverizato et incorpora con mele purgato et ne beva con vino caldo et presto provocha il suo tempo per la via ordinaria. Item ad provocandum. Torai ireos si ex aqua distillationis. Eius bibit cum zuccharo purgat infirmitates intrinsicas matricis. Et etiam oleos d’ireos valet si exeo unatur matrix aut e sulve si alique mulieres edunt drama vj dicti olei cum infirmatur in matrice liberabitur. Et darali pillore no. 5 la sera e fara bono. Item ad provocandum tempus ad muglierem statim, vz. Rx.3 cime di marcorella e 3 di malva et falle bolire in uno bocale de vino bianco bone et mettivi drento tanto lievito di frumento quanto e una castagnia et scropuli 2 di zaferano intiero et fallo bolire per metta et poi lo cola et premi bene et ne darai a bere onze 4 la matina per tempo a modo di syropo et lavasi la sera inanti le gambe, al ingiu con lissia bolitovi drento rose e camomilla et la sera medema ongasi il corpo con olio laurino onze ij e olio di giglio et camomilla, ana onza j, con scropuli 2 zaferano e tienlo caldo et presto li vera il tempo suo et fallo inel fare della luna overo in e soi quarti 1, 2, 3, o 4.