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Inscription

Center right in (gold?): XXVIII.; birds in image numbered .1., .3., .4., .5., and .6., in red ink; barnacles (?) in image numbered .2., in red ink
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: Non avis utiliter viscatis effugit alis: / Non bene de laxis cassibus exit Aper.; lower center in red/violet ink: Date gloriam Deo super Israel: magnificentia ei[u]s / Et virtus eius In Nubibus. ps:67. (“Give you glory to God for Israel; his magnificence and his power is in the clouds.” Psalms 67:35) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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