.s. .v. .m. .v. [substances] one clearly flown likely meaning sublimated [and] cooked.
If you wish to treat such a thing, let the vessel be purified equally; after it is dried, [take] an equal portion of birds' nuts likely a reference to a specific seed or small mineral nodule, come of the moon alchemical shorthand for silver.

Magnesia and the talmuza possibly a corruption of tutmīyā, or zinc oxide/tutty of sulfur cause no damage; magnesia is combined [with them]. There is an equal efficacy of spirits by which the talmuza of sulfur lives in a certain ratio of juice. [For] ten days' time, it is said to the disciple that for the disciple of wisdom, then they ought to have all the god-given [gifts] of friendship; then here he ought to give the best to the wife of the Roman this may be an allegorical reference to a specific chemical union or "marriage" of substances; it is not extracted from the fields out of the deserted [places] in which the sun alone [shines]. The foster children of right philosophy do not wish to reveal the regal speech [which is] the patrimony. Here begins the book of distillations, as much from flowers [as from other things].

Here begins the book of distillations as well as the work of alchemy

Here begins the book of distillations as well as the work of alchemy. It deceives, yet it does not deceive; this is the book of distillations, or rather, the middle part [of the art] where at that time I sent a tempered [substance]. This alchemy does not form [anything] in the earth; then, upon which a spirit is made, it does not touch the action. For this reason, all distillations which [occur] through a vessel touched [by fire] are of great value for the attainment [of the goal]; and all [the spirits] do not fluctuate or, as is said of distillation and other things, the work of alchemy fails in its own time if it does not go [correctly]; that is, that distillation which has distilled, because it is not fixed, neither to the sun gold nor to the moon silver, this month it blackens and is corrupted. Paphia possibly a reference to a specific alchemical author or a location says this: in a time of moderate egg-whites albumen was often used as a binder or clarifying agent, it does not know how to cut through the heat of the gods, then it restores its own [nature]; what is called the "water of distillation" of those things is then in that [place] where there is a foulness of odors, a smoke and foulness of odors. Then that "fifth thing" the Quinta Essentia or Quintessence, the purified soul of a substance in distillation is that which is called the vigor; then you have added good medicine and you will have made a [solid] dregs.
The ancient says: you will have the work prepared because either [by] friendship or what is called the "good way," all distillations are completed and not corrupted.

They are corrupted in such a time when one sees by the bile [the colors of] the turtle or the fool; it ought not to have its proper color given by the long [process] because the mercury quicksilver which is owed [to the work] is lost through poverty lack of material or through an excess of the things to be distilled, which ought to pass away corrupted in the fire. If this happens by accident in a place because it was not properly [heated], then the juices gradually vary; they are triple-ground and [produce] the colors of the various medicines, and thus by the power of the water they make the form of the medicine. Let it be cooked then, and all the visions of distillation of water are made gradually; they wish for the place where the foulness of odors and smoke [are present]; it is necessary to proceed gradually, and if not, it makes a black operation the Nigredo stage of alchemy, associated with putrefaction or a white one [through] the vessels. Otherwise, then, friend, you ought to let [it] endure gradually in a separate place, such as in a well-heated pit a sand bath or bain-marie in which you place a large pot with water and sand mixed in. Because the heated sand [allows] the water of the place to give life to the water.

How artificial borax is prepared in this way

Borax is prepared artificially in this way: it is calcined burnt to a powder, it will be ground, and by way of the village [method?] let it be carried. Take the salt of glass possibly potash or a byproduct of glassmaking, dissolve and distill these waters in a vessel; and thus artificial borax is clearly dissolved.