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Inscription

Upper center in red/violet ink: FACTVS SVM SICVT NICTICORAX IN DOMICILIO / psal.101. (“I am like a night raven in the house.” Psalms 101:7) (Latin Vulgate Bible); center right in (gold?): XXIII.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: Verba puellarum foliis lemora caducis: / Irritaq[ue] ut visum est, [veritas], et unda ferunt.; lower center in black ink: Stryx nocturna sonans, et Vespertilio stridunt / Noctua lucifuga cucubat in tenebris.

Provenance

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

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