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Inscription

Upper center in red ink: EANDEM SE[M]PER CANTAT CANTILENA[M] CVCVLVS.; center right in (gold?): XXXXVII.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., and .5., in red ink
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: Et cuculi cuculant; fritinit rauca cicada: / Bombilat ore legens munera mellis, Apis.; lower center in brown ink: Qui docet nos super Iumenta terrae: Et / super volucres COELI erudit nos . Job.35. (“Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?” Job 35:11) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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