Leaf Excised from a Psalter: Massacre of the Innocents

Leaf Excised from a Psalter: Massacre of the Innocents

c. 1260 · Flanders, Liège(?), 13th century

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¶ Then Herode, when hee saw that hee was mocked of the Wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent foorth, and slewe all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two yeeres olde and vnder, according to the time, which he had diligently enquired of the Wise men.
MATTHEW 2:16 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

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