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Inscription

Upper center in violet ink: PICA CVM LVSCINIA.; center right in (gold?): LX.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., and .3., in red ink; lower center in brown ink (gold?): Quod si dolosi spes refulserit nummi: / corvos poetas, et Poetridas PICAS. / cantare credas Pegaseum melos.
Facing page: upper center in black ink: Pica loquax, certa dominum te voce saluto; / Si me non videas, esse negabis avem.; lower center in black ink: Pica loquax varios, modulatur gutture voces, / scurriliter strepitu, quidquid et audit ait.

Provenance

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

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