The Gotha Missal: Fol. 16r, Nativity
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The Gotha Missal: Fol. 16r, Nativity

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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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