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Upper center in black ink: ALIA VOCE PSITTACVS, ALIA COTVRNIX LOQVITUR (“Parrot and quail squeak with different voices.” Erasmus, _Adages_, 2.5.59) (trans. Vignau-Wilberg 1994, 65); center right in (gold?): LVIII.; parrots in image numbered .1., .2., and .3., in red ink; writing [undeciphered] on branch on right of image in gold; lower center in red/violet ink: FVNGVS PVTIDVS. / in black ink: Vilibus ancipites, fungi ponentur amicis: Boletus Domino.
Facing page: upper center in red ink: Qui fecit Coelos In Intellectu: Quoniam / In aeternum misericordia eius ps: 135. (“Who made the heavens in understanding: for his mercy endures forever.” Psalms 135:5) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in black ink: Rumpimus altricem tenero de vertice terram / Tubera: boletis poma secunda sumus.

Provenance

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

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