Inscription
Upper center in red/violet ink: Sapientia ex ore Altissimi prodyt primogenita ante omnem / Creaturam, fecit In COELIS ut oriretur lumen Indeficie[n]s / Et sicut nebula texit omnem terra[m] Ecc[us] 24. (“Wisdom came forth from the mouth of the most high, the firstborn before all creatures. And caused an unfailing light to rise in the heavens and cover all the land like a mist.” Ecclesiasticus 24:5-6) (Latin Vulgate Bible); center right in (gold?): XXXIV.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., and .3., in red ink
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: Nam prius incipient turres vitare columbae, / Aiitra f[a]er[a]e, pecudes gramina, Mergus aquas. / Quam male Sepr[a]estet Veteri grecinus amico.; Lower center in black ink: Aequor amat, nomenq[ue] manet, quia mergitur illi.
Provenance
Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.
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- Title Page
- 1987.20.8.1
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- Plate 9: Two Pheasants with Fruiting Plants
- 1987.20.8.10
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- Plate 10: Gray Crowned Crane and Helmeted Curassow
- 1987.20.8.11
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- Plate 12: Pair of Wood Grouse with a Melon and Pears
- 1987.20.8.13
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- Plate 13: Two Curly Gray Chickens (Silkie Chickens?)
- 1987.20.8.14
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- Plate 14: Spoonbill Crane and Flamingo
- 1987.20.8.15
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- Plate 15: Common Crane and Bittern(?)
- 1987.20.8.16
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- Plate 18: Heron and Stork
- 1987.20.8.19
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- Plate 1: Two Ostriches and a Starling
- 1987.20.8.2
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- Plate 19: Two Great Egrets with Green Breeding Masks
- 1987.20.8.20
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- Plate 20: A Plover with Four Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.21
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- Plate 22: Two White Pelicans with a Sycamore Fig
- 1987.20.8.23
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- Plate 24: Two Swans, a Kingfisher, and a Bullfinch
- 1987.20.8.25
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- Plate 26: Cormorant and Coot
- 1987.20.8.27
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- Plate 2: Two Eagles
- 1987.20.8.3
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- Plate 29: Geese with Poppies and a Cyclamen
- 1987.20.8.30
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- Plate 31: Duck, Merganser, and Three Goldfinches
- 1987.20.8.32
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- Plate 3: Two Hawks
- 1987.20.8.4
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- Plate 40: European Bee-Eater and Exotic Chicken
- 1987.20.8.41
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- Plate 44: Godwit(?) and Sandpipers with Two Gourds
- 1987.20.8.45
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- Plate 45: Spotted Nutcracker and Shore Birds
- 1987.20.8.46
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- Plate 47: Shore Birds with a Perching Bird
- 1987.20.8.48
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- Plate 50: An Avocet with Two Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.51
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- Plate 59: Curlew and Crow with Horse Skull
- 1987.20.8.60
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- Plate 60: Magpie, Crow, and Goldfinch
- 1987.20.8.61
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- Plate 64: Two Partridges, a Wren, and Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.65
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- Plate 65: Thrushes and Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.66
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- Plate 66: Doves and Pigeons
- 1987.20.8.67
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- Plate 67: Two Doves beneath a Gourd and Apples
- 1987.20.8.68
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- Plate 68: A Ptarmigan, Swallows, and Other Birds
- 1987.20.8.69
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- Plate 70: Empty Oval
- 1987.20.8.71
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- Plate 72: Empty Oval
- 1987.20.8.72
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- Plate 7: Four Birds of Prey on a Wooden Frame
- 1987.20.8.8
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- Plate 8: Bearded Vulture with Two Birds of Prey
- 1987.20.8.9