Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org MS.804A : Saint Margaret, Virgin and Martyr ( -c. 285). RECTO. Vie de Sainte Marguerite: in verse [Incomplete]. At the beginning above the text is an illuminated miniature in gold and colours, measuring 6 x 5½ cm., somewhat faded and rubbed. It depicts the Saint with a halo, standing and beckoning with her left hand to three sheep in a field, one of them grazing. She wears a close fitting upper garment in pale pink and a pale yellow skirt, apparently laced down the front: she has black pointed shoes. The first initial A is in blue and gold, other painted capitals are in alternate red and blue. Begins: Apres la saincte passion Jhesucrit et lascension. These are the first two lines of MS. 1555 of the Bibliothèque Nationale, as printed by A. Joly. [Cf. entry for MS.804.] Numbers in brackets below relate to the numbered lines in this transcript, though there are variations in the present version. End of recto: De laisse pour votre seigniour [210] Lamite de mon creatour. [211] Beginning of verso: Et quant elle fut releuee [441] Le coulonp unit alie tout droit [442] These contain considerable variations from Joly's text. End of verso: Lors ueissiez epressement [638] De toutes parties ere molt longuement. The second line does not appear in Joly's text. This example of the 'Vie de Sainte Marguerite' does not show many signs of having been used as a Birth-girdle: the text was left unfinished by the scribe. In Joly's Transcript there are 661 verses. c. 1485 Published: -