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upper center in black ink: TOTVS ECHINVS ASPER. (“A sea urchin is rough all over.” Erasmus, _Adages_, 2.9.59) (trans. Bass 2019, 221); echinoderms in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., .5., .6., .7., .8., .9., .10., .11, .12., .13., .14., .15., .16., .20., .21., .22., and .23., in red ink; center right in brown ink: LIV.
Facing page: upper center in blue ink: .1. / Iste licet digitos testudines pungat acuta: / Cortice deposito, mollis Echinus erit.; lower center in red/violet ink: Vive tibi tecumq[ue] habita nec grandia tentes; / Effugit immodicas, parvula puppis AQVAS (“Live for yourself and reside with yourself, and do not try great things. The small ship flees unruly waters.” Labeled as Ovid in Comenius, _Lexicon atriale_, 473-74) (trans. Bass 2019, 221)

Provenance

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

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