Leaf from a Gradual: Initial P with the Nativity

Leaf from a Gradual: Initial P with the Nativity

c. 1500 · Attavante degli Attavanti (Italian, c. 1452-c. 1525), Workshop

ink, tempera and gold on vellum

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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