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Inscription

Fish in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., and .5., in red ink; center right in (gold?): XXXV.
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: Fulgentes soleae candore, et concolor illlis / Passeri; et Adriaco mirandus littore Rhombus.; lower center in red/violet ink: Quando circu[m]dabat MARI terminum suum, et legem ponebat / AQVIS ne transirent fines suos, ego sapientia aderam :pro:8. (“When he compassed the sea with its bounds and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits, I knowledge was there." Proverbs 8:29) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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