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Inscription

Center right in (gold?): VII.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3. and .4., in red ink; plant in image at left numbered 5, in red ink.
Facing page: Upper center in red ink: Numquid ad sapientiam tuam plumescit ACCIPITER? / Expandens alas suas ad Austru. Job 29. (“Does the hawk wax feathered by your wisdom, spreading her wings to the south?” Job 39:26) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in black ink: Extendens COELVM sicut pellem: qui tegis / aquis superiora eius.ps: 103. (“Who stretches out the heaven like a pavilion. Who covers the rooms thereof with water.” Psalms 103:2-3) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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