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Inscription

Fish in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., .5., .6., .7., .8., .9., and .10., in red ink; center right in (gold?): XXXXI.
Facing page: upper center in blue/black ink: Hi iaculo pisces, illi capiuntur ab hamis, / Hos cana contento retia fume trabunt.; lower center in black ink: Omnia flumina intrant in mare, et mare non redundat: Ad locum / unde exeunt flumina revertu[n]tur, ut iteru[m] fluant. Ecc[es]1: (“All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea does not overflow unto the place from whence the rivers came, they return, to flow again” Ecclesiastes 1:7) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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