Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 34r, The Nativity
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Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 34r, The Nativity

1510 · Guillaume Le Rouge (French, Paris, active 1493–1517)

112 Printed folios on parchment, bound

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.
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