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Upper center in red ink: DERIDET EQVVM ET ASCENSOREM SVVM. (“She scorns the horse and his rider.” Job 39:18) (Latin Vulgate Bible); center right in gold: .I.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in brown ink: Gloriabit me bestia agri dracones , et STRVTHIONES, quia dedi in / deserto aquas , flumina In Invio vt darem potum populo meo. Isa 43: (“The beast of the field will honor me, the dragons and the ostriches: because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.” Isaiah 43:20) (Latin Vulgate Bible)
Facing page: Upper center in black (?) ink: Nunc sturnos inopes, fringillarumq[ue]
qu[a]erlas / Audit, et arguto passere vernat ager.; lower center in brown ink: Erit Terra Impiorum Cubile. draconum / et pascua STRVTIONVM. Isa: 34. (“It will be a habitation of dragons and the pasture of ostriches.” Isaiah 34:13) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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