Three Cuttings from a Missal: Initial C with the Adoration of the Magi

Three Cuttings from a Missal: Initial C with the Adoration of the Magi

c. 1470–1500 · Germany, Franconia or Saxony (?) or Silesia (?), 15th century

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¶ And when they were come into the house, they saw the yong child with Mary his mother, and fell downe, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented vnto him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrhe.
MATTHEW 2:11 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

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