Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial A and Initial A: Judith Beheading Holofernes

Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial A and Initial A: Judith Beheading Holofernes

c. 1230–1240 · Leber Group (French)

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And she smote twise vpon his necke with all her might, and she tooke away his head from him,
JUDITH 13:8 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

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