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Upper center in (gold?): SIMILIS FACTVS SVM PELLICANO SOLITVDINIS / psal:101. (“I am like a pelican of the wilderness.” Psalms 101:7) (Latin Vulgate Bible); center right in (gold?): XIV.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in brown ink: Vt solet effuso PELLICANVS sanguine pullos / Pascere, et extinctis vita cruore venit. / Sic tu nate dei, manantibus undiq[ue] guttis. Humanji es generis gloria, vita, salus.
Facing page: Upper center in blue/black (?) ink: .2. / Dat mihi penna rubens nomen: sed lingua gulosis / Nostra placet; quid si garrula lingua foret?; lower center in violet ink: Et Scythicae volucres, et PHOENICOPTERVS ingens / Et getulus Orix, hebeti lautissima ferro / C[a]editur.

Provenance

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

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