Single Miniature: The Nativity

Single Miniature: The Nativity

c. 1515 · Girolamo dai Libri (Italian, 1474–1555)

tempera and gold on parchment

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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