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Inscription

Upper center in (gold?): Numquid nosti tempus IBICVM In petris? vel / Parturientes cervas observasti? Job.38.(“Know you the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks or have you observed the hinds when they fawn?” Job 39:1) (Latin Vulgate Bible); center right in (gold?): XVII.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; dragon’s blood tree in image numbered .3., in red ink
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: .2. / Ibidis anguinecis Basiliscus nasciture ovo / Principium sequitur, res mala s[a]epe bonum. [In red ink]: A:S. (Stockelius?); lower center in red ink: Aegyptus portenta Colit, Crocodilon adorat / Pars haec, illa panet saturam serpentibus IBIM. / Effigies sacri nitet aurea Cercopitheci.

Provenance

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

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