[English translation]

Note that if you want to make the conserve of borage, that is a confection or electuary of flowers of borage or bugloss or flowers of tamarind or water lilies and violets or French lavender, first take these flowers, only the flowers pure and clean of every pedicle, and cut them as minutely as you can and grind them as well as you can, because its delicacy consists of being well ground. Take 4 ounces of it and 1 lb. of sugar, always 1 part to 3 parts, and grind them well together. This is intended for crushed white sugar but if you put in red sugar, always put in a little more which is better in every way and it keeps the electuaries always soft and rich. Then put it in your bottle, covered with parchment, and make several openings with the point of a knife and put it in the sun for several days. Each day stir it with your stirring rod. Especially in the water lily electuary, do not fill up the bottle because it swells terribly and stir it often so that it does not overflow the bottle. If you wish to cook it, hold to the rules given above to purify the sugar with egg white. Strain it and give it the usual cooking and then put in your flowers which have been well ground and in this way you will make it good and perfect.
Note in part some of the virtues of these electuaries and first of the red sugar. Taken in the morning, it comforts the stomach and the heart and strengthens debilitated intestines. Drinking it in the summer with water will cool all the body and improve nourishment and also it is a tested remedy for phthisis.

Another.
The electuaries of borage and bugloss have nearly the same effectiveness. They correct much of the impairment of the stomach, the heart and the liver because they remove syncope, reduce tremor and get rid of every excess heat and help greatly in melancholy.

Another.
The electuary of violets strikes against the heat of cholera, wards off thirst, gets rid of the heat of fever, relieves the chest and abdomen, helps one who suffers from a cough and may be given usefully at the beginning of pleurisy.

Another.
The electuary of
adiantos
, that is of flowers of tamarind, has the same comforting effect and therefore is useful in treating all distresses of the heart.

Another.
The electuary of flowers of water lily is very effective in removing the heat of venereal disease. Many other virtues are contained in this electuary that you will learn by working with it.
Simple oxymel, effective and good.... 170
Take 2 lb. of honey and 2 egg whites, well beaten in the pot and made all into foam. Then put in the honey with 3 lb. of well water and put it on a slow fire until it has all foamed up. Do not touch it and when it begins to boil, remove it from the fire and strain it though 2 sacks, enough times so that it comes out very clear. Do not use those sacks to make the julep because it will be turbid. Wash the pot well and put the filtrate in it again and reboil very slowly until it reaches perfection in cooking and do the test on a card. Boil it until it reduces almost all the water and when it is close to being cooked, put in 6 ounces of very strong white vinegar and let it boil some. It will be made....

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[Italian transcript]

Notta che se tu volesti fare conserva boraginata, id est confetto overo lattovario de fiori di boragine o di buglossa o de fiore di tramarino o di nanuffari e viole overo de sticadosso, prima pigliera li ditti fiori e che sia solamente il fiore schietto e netto de ogni altro piccollo. Et tagliali minuti piu che tu poi et pestali bene quanto tu poi mai pestare perche la sua fineza consiste inell essere ben pisti. Pigliane onze iiij e zuccharo lb. j sempre per terzo in tutte le cose et fa chel sia ancora lui ben pisto incompagnia e bene incorporato. E questo se intende del zuccharo bianco cioe rotami ma se tu li meterai zuccharo rosso, sempre ne metti um poco piu divantagio per tutti li boni rispetti et sempre mantiene li lattuari morbidi e grassi. Et poi lo meterai neli tuoi alberelli coperto con carta pecora et fali parechi buchi con la ponta del coltello et metilo al sole per parechie giorni et ogni giorno li mesterai drento con la tua stecha. Et maxime in quello de nanuffari non impire il suo vaso perche gonfia teribilmente e pero mestalo spesso acio chel non trabocha fora del vaso. Et se tu li vorai cosere, tiene l’ordine sopra detto a purificare il zuccaro col chiaro del ovo e colarlo e darli la sua cotta ordinaria e poi li metterai drento le tue fiore le quale sarano ben peste et a questo modo lo farai bono e perfetto.
Notta im parte dele virtu deli ditti lattovarii, e prima del zuccharo roxato. Pigliandolo la matina, conforta il stomacho e il core et corobora le vissere indebelite. Et bevto la estate con aqua reffrigera tutto il corpo et genera bon nutrimento e anche e uno presentaneo rimedio per li thisichi.
Item.
Il lattovario boraginato et buglosato a quasi una medesima virtu. Et menda molto li vitii del stomaco e del core et del fegato et impero rimove la sincopi, corrode il tremore et exstingue ogni calore exstraneo et giova molto a malenconici.
Item.
Il lattuario violato ribatte il fervore dela collera, cacia la sete, extingui il calore dela febbre, lenisse il petto et al ventre, giova a chi patisse la tosse et utilmente dassi inel principio a pleuretici.
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Lattovario de adiantos, cioe de fiori di tramarino, il quale a virtu di confortare et impero utilmente se adopera in tutte le passione del core.
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Lattovario de fiori di nanuffari vale molto a extinguere il caldo venereo et molte altre virtu si contiene in essi lattovarii. Operandoli le imparerai.
Oximelis semplice perfetto e buono.
Rx. lb. 2 di mele et 2 chiare d’ovo ben battute inel tozo fate andare tute in stiuma. Poi li metti drento il mele con 3 lb. di aqua di pozo et metilo al foco lento tanto chel al ci in capo la stiuma. Non la tochare et quando l’apre il bolore, levelo dal foco et colalo con 2 sachetti tante volte chel venga ben chiaro. Et li ditti sachette non li adoperare a fare il giulebbe che tel faria torbido. Et laverai bene il tozo et rimettilo drento et falo ribolire pian piano tanto chel venghi ala sua perfetione del cotto e ne farai il saggio insun la carta. Et falo bolire tanto chel calli quasi tutta l’aqua et quando sera apresso che cotto, metteli drento onze vj de aceto biancha fortissima et lasselo bolire al quanto et sera fatto……