Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Nativity (recto) and Text (verso)

Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Nativity (recto) and Text (verso)

c. 1430 · Northeastern France, 15th century

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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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