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Inscription

Upper center in (gold?): .1. / CORVVM DELVSIT HIANTEM.; center right in (gold?): LXII.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., .5., .6., and .7., in red ink; lower center in blue and violet ink: .2. / Hic niger est, hunc tu Romane caneto.
Facing page: upper center in black ink: Nimirum interroga iumenta, et docebunt te: / Et volatilia coeli et indicabunt tibi. Job.12. (“But ask now the beasts, and they shall teachyou; and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you.” Job 12:7) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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