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Inscription

upper center in black/blue ink: DAT VENIAM CORVIS VEXAT CE[N]SVRA COLV[M]BAS.; center right in (gold?): LXVII.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., and .3., in red ink; lower center in red/violet ink: COLVMBA SEDENS. / in (gold?): Sicut pullus hirundinis sic clamabo: meditabor sicut Columba. Isa.38. (“I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove.” Isaiah 38:14) (Latin Vulgate Bible)
Facing page: upper center in black ink: Exemplo iunctae tibi sint in amore Columbae: / Masculus et totum faemina coniugium.; lower center in black ink: Quae modo pugnarunt; iungunt sua rostra Colu[m]bae / Quarum blanditias, verbaq[ue] murmur habent.

Provenance

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

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