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Inscription

Fish in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., 5, .6.,.7., 8, 9, 10, 11, .12., .13., .14., 15, and .16.; center right in (gold?): XXXXIII.
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: Nescit Homo finem suum, sed sicut Piscis capitur hamo, / et sicut aves laqueo co[m]prehendu[n]tur in tempore malo: Eccl.9. (“Man knows not his own end; but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare in evil time.” Ecclesiastes 9:12) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in red/violet ink: Nihil est dulcius ocio literario, his dico literis quibus / Infinitatem rerum, atq[ue] naturae et in hoc ipso mu[n]do / Coelum, terras, MARIA Cognoscamus. Cic[o].

Provenance

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

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