The Visitation, from a Book of Hours

The Visitation, from a Book of Hours

c. 1440-1445 · Flanders

Manuscript with 230 folios, 12 full-page miniatures and other decorations in gold leaf, tempera and colored inks, and littera textualis inscriptions in Latin and French in dark black ink, ruled in red with red rubrics,…

And she spake out with a loud voyce, and saide, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruite of thy wombe.
LUKE 1:42 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

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