It says:

“Der Doctor Schnabel von Rom

“Kleidung wider den Tod zu Rom. Anno 1656. Also gehen die Doctores medici daher zu Rom, wann sie die an der Pest erkrankte Personen besuchen, sie zu curiren und tragen, sich vor dem Gift zu sichern, ein langes Kleid von gewäxtem Tuch. Ihr Angesicht ist verlarvt, für den Augen haben sie grosse crystalline Brillen, vor den Nasen einen langen Schnabel voll wohlriechender Specerey, in der Hände, welche mit Handschuhen wohl versehen ist, eine lange Ruthe und damit deuten sie, was man thun und gebrauchen soll.”

which translates to

“The Doctor Beak from Rome

Clothing against death at Rome. Anno 1656. So therefore the doctors go to Rome, when they visit a person who suffers from the plague, to cure them to carry them [the diseased], to protect them[the doctors] from the poison, a long dress made of waxed clothing. Their countenance is masked, for eyes they have large crystalish glasses, for the nose a long beak filled with flavoursome specerey (pepper I think?), in their hands, which are protected by gloves, a long rod, with which they instruct what one should do and use.”

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My translation sounds still a little awkward I know, but this is written in old German, and it sounds like, someone who doesn’t speak German very well, translated it from Italian into German.

Kind of creepy, but so fascinating.