Bifolio from an Antiphonary: Historiated Initial O with the Nativity

Bifolio from an Antiphonary: Historiated Initial O with the Nativity

early 1400s · Bohemia, Prague, 15th century

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.
LUKE 2:7 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

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