Nativity with midwifes & Jesus first bath [about 1135]

Nativity in Byzantine tradition with midwifes and Jesus first bath

 

London BL Egerton MS 1139 Folio-2r [1131-43 CE]

 

The Melisende Psalter (London, British Library, MS Egerton 1139) is an illuminated manuscript commissioned around 1135 in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, probably by King Fulk for his wife Queen Melisende.

 

Source:

www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_1139

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