Leaf Excised from a Book of Hours: The Nativity

Leaf Excised from a Book of Hours: The Nativity

c. 1480 · Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444–1519)

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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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