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upper center in red ink: Sepia tarda fugae, tenui cum forte sub unda / Deprensa est, iam tamq[ue] manus timet illa rapaces: / Inficiens aequor nigrum vomit illa cruorem, /
Avertitq[ue] vices, oculos frustrata sequentes. / .6.; creatures in image numbered .1., .2., .3, .4., .5., .6., .7., .8., .9., .10., .11., and .12. in red ink; center right in brown ink: LIII.; lower center in red ink: At contra scopulis crinali corpore sequis / Polypus h[a]eret, et hac eludit retia frande: / Et sub lege loci sumit mutatq[ue] colorem, / semper ei similis, quem contigit. / .4.
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: Quis satiabitur videns gloriam eius? Ecc 42. (“Who shall be filled with beholding his glory?”) Ecclesiasticus 42:26) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in black ink: Nunc quoq[ue] CORALIIS eadem natura remansit. / Duriciem tacto capiant ut ab aere: quodque / Vimen in [a]equore erat, fiat super [a]ethera saxum.

Provenance

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

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