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[MarcoP]

1) Yesterday I went to the library and checked “El libro agregà de Serapiom”, Ineichen's 1962 transcription of the text of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (the Carrarese Herbal, written in Padua between 1390 and 1404). It's the vulgar (Veneto dialect) translation of the Latin version of an Arabic treaty.

It contains recipes making use of goat milk and liver. The language is also interesting. In particular:

• ola for the Latin “olla” (jar)
  
• marixe for the Latin “matrix” (uterus)
  
• cera identical to the Latin (wax)
  

The ms makes extensive use of 'x' occurring in words like

• raixe (root)
  
• cuoxe (cook - imperative)
  
• infiaxone (swellings)
  

But I don't think there are many words ending in -x.

2) I have also found an online transcription of an Occitan medical text from Southern France: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (Ms.: Chantilly, Musée Condé 330, mid-fifteenth century). The text was transcribed by Maria Sofia Corradini. The site contains a number of other interesting transcription of medical texts.

The book in which the transcriptions were originally published was You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (well known in the Voynich community).
It was also discussed by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Some words of interest:

• portas – used both as imperative and as second person present indicative (“bring” - modern French portez) 
  
• ola – also here for the Latin “olla” (jar)
  
• cera – also here for “wax”
  
• avia – for the Latin “habeas” 2nd person singular subjunctive (qui avia mal – whoever had pain)
  
• boch - “billy goat” (picas ensemps lo sanc del boch e·l fege e·l polmo e·ls ronhons – take together the blood of the billy goat and its liver and its lungs and its kidneys)
  
• mel - honey (this could be relevant for Voynich You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.)
  

An amulet made of names with crosses is described ("Melchion + Beltezart + Caspart +").
There are recipes with goat's milk ("suc d’alfabrega, dada a beure ambe lait de cabra").