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Inscription

Upper center in red/violet ink: LVSCINIAE DEEST CA[N]TIO.; center right in (gold?): XXXVII.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .6., and .7., in red ink; fruit on trees in image numbered .4. and .5., in red ink; lower center in (gold?): NEQVE QVANTVM LVSCINIAE DORMIVNT.
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: Flet Phylomela nefas Incesti Tereos: et quae / muta puella fuit, garrula fertur avis.; lower center in black ink: Dulcis amica veni, noctis solatia praestans: / Inter aves etinem, nulla tui similis. / Tu Phylomela potes, vocum discrimina mille, / Mille potes varios ipsa referre modos.

Provenance

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

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