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upper center in black ink: Reddere si poterat sapientem barba, Quid obstat / Hircus quin possit barbiger esse Plato; upper center in red/violet ink: PASTILLOS RVFINVS OLET, GORGONIVS HIRCV[M].; center right in black ink: XXIV.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in (gold?): HIRCVM MVLGENS, QVID NISI OPERAM LVDIS?
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Occursare capro cornu ferit ille caveto. / lower center in brown ink: Poma sumus Cybeles: Procul hinc discede viator / Ne cadat in miserum, nostra ruina caput.

Provenance

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

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