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Inscription

upper center in red ink: OVES LVPO CO[M]MISSAE.; center right in black ink: XXIII.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; plants and trees in image numbered .3., .4., and .5., in red ink; lower center in blue/black ink: Boni pastoris est tondere Pecus, non deglubere.
Facing page: upper center in (gold?): Aspice labentes iucundo murmure rivos: / Aspice tondentes fertile gramen Oves.; lower center in (gold?): Laeta salitur Ovis: tauro quoq[ue] laeta iuvenca est: / Sustinet immundum, sima capella marem.

Provenance

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

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