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Inscription

upper center in (gold?): BOS LASSVS FORTIVS FIGIT PEDEM.; right center in gold: V.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in red ink: CAMELVM DEGLVTIVNT QVI CVLICE[M] COLANT.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: In te inimicos nostros ventilabimus cornu; / Et in no[m]i[n]e tuo spergemus insurgentes in nos.ps:43.( “Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we despise them that rise up against us.” Psalms 43:6) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in black ink: Producens Terra foenum iumentis, et herbam / servituti hominum ps: 103. (“Bringing forth grass for cattle and herb for the service of men.” Psalms 103:14) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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