The Nativity in a Historiated Initial "P" from a Choir Book

The Nativity in a Historiated Initial "P" from a Choir Book

c. 1390 · Italy

Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf on parchment, with gothica textualis inscriptions in black ink, verso

And she brought foorth her first borne sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no roome for them in the Inne.
LUKE 2:7 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

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