Laura, If something is worth doing, it's worth being done poorly, said Chesterton. Here are my guesses: I emended [blano] to 'blanco', [manitas] to 'manicas' and 'aurento' to 'aureato', and the result was, For Mary: A white silk gown with golden stars with sic [presuris?] of beads. For Mary: Thirty bands of beads on the sleeves. For Mary: A crown of gilded silver with gems with fourteen [pasetis?]. Luciana Cuppo Csaki [log in to unmask] http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9891