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Upper center in black ink: VBICVNQVE FVERIT CORPVS IBI CO[N]GREGABV[N]TVR AQVILAE. (“Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.” Matthew 24:28) (Latin Vulgate Bible); center right in (gold?): .III.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in violet ink: Tria sunt difficilia mihi, et quartum penitus I[g]noro: Viam / AQVILAE in Caelo: viam Colubri super terram: viam navis / In medio maris: Et viam viri In Adolescentia. Proverb.30. (“Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of. The way of an eagle in the air, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the middle of the sea, And the way of a man in youth.” Proverbs 30:18-19) (Latin Vulgate Bible)
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: sed carmina tantum / Nostra valent, Lycida, tela Inter Martia qua[n]tum / CSaonias dicunt Aquilae veniente columbas.; lower center in black ink: Dum Clangunt Aquilae: Vultur pulpareprobatur: / Et crocitat corvus: graculus at frigulat.

Provenance

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

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