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Inscription

Creatures in image numbered .1., .2, .3., .4., .5., .6., .7., .8., and .9., in red ink; center right in brown ink: X.
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: .7. / Tum Viridis Iquammis parvo Saxatilis ore.; lower center in red ink: Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus hominis: oves et boves / Insuper et pecora campi; volucres coeli, et pisces / MARIS, qui perambulant semitas MARIS ps: 8. (“You have subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields, the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.” Psalms 8:8-9) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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