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upper center in brown ink: Vere nono poscunt genitalia semina terrae: / Vere magis teneri curatur vulnus amoris:; fish in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., 5., .6., .7., .8., .9., .10., .11., and .12.; center right in (gold?): XXII.; lower center in brown ink: Conveniunt veneris captae dulcedine gentes / squammigerae, totus pontus tum fernet amore.
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: Mirabiles elationes maris / mirabilis in illis dominus / ps: 92 (“Wonderful are the surges of the sea; wonderful is the Lord on high” Psalms 92:4) (Latin Vulgate Bible); lower center in red ink: Omnia flumina intrant in mare, et mare non redundat: / Ad locu[m] unde exeunt flumina, revertuntur, ut iterum / fluant: Ecc[es]1. (“All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea does not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.” Ecclesiastes 1:7) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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