Ancient French manuscripts. Drawing of King Herod ordering the Massacre of the Innocents 1 and initial letters 2 of the 100th Psalm from Cottonian MS Nero , Doucean Psalter 3, miniature of the Apocalypse 4 and text 5 from the French Version of the Apocalypse. Chromolithograph after an illustration by John Obadiah Westwood from his own Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria, being a series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, copied from Illuminated Manuscripts, William Smith, London, 1843.

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