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upper center in light red ink: NE CAPREA CONTRA LEONEM.; center right in black ink: XX.; animals in image numbered .1., .2., .3., and .4. in red ink: lower center in black ink: .3. / EX LONGAEVO PRVDENTIA.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Aperies tu manum tuam; et imples / omne animal benedictione ps: 144. (“You open your hand and fill with blessing every living creature.” Psalms 144:16) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in (gold?): Scit bene venator, Cervis ubi retia tendat: / Scit bene, qua frendens valle moretur Aper.

Provenance

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

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