Leaf from an Antiphonary with Historiated Initial (H) with The Nativity (recto) and Music (verso)
early 1300s · Italy, Tuscany
ink, 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.
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