The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
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Matthew gives one verse to the flight; everything tender in this picture comes from elsewhere — Pseudo-Matthew and the Golden Legend, where on the third day the palm bends down to feed the Virgin and a spring opens at its root. John Oliver Hand reads the foreground as a sentence: plantain, which staunches blood; mint for purity; strawberry, three-leaved for the Trinity and red for the wounds; fern against the Devil; violet for humility. The grapes in her hand are the Eucharist. Behind her Joseph knocks down nuts — the palm miracle again, in a Netherlandish wood.
Who arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and retired into Egypt: and he was there until the death of Herod:
Matthew 2:14 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 17,011 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.