Single Leaf from a Bible: Initial E[t factum est] with Jonah Swallowed by the Whale

Single Leaf from a Bible: Initial E[t factum est] with Jonah Swallowed by the Whale

c. 1290 · France, Paris

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¶ Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow vp Ionah, and Ionah was in the belly of the fish three dayes, and three nights.
JONAH 1:17 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

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