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top center in gold(?) ink: MATREM SEQVIMINI PORCI. (Piglets, after your mother--Erasmus Adages iv vii 42)
Facing page: upper center in (gold?): At nobis Pax alma veni spicamq[ue] teneto: / Profluat et pomis, candidus ante sinus.; lower center in blue ink: Vrgentis pinnas iaculatur in ora Molossi / Hystrix, et telo trux bicolore nocet: / Defendit proprys armis Heroica Virtus / se, nec ab alterius strennua pendet ope. A:S: can[ebat]. (Stockelius?)

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

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