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Inscription

upper center in red ink: SI TANTI VITRVM, QVANTI MARGARITVM.; echinoderms in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., .5., .6., and .7., in red ink; center right in brown ink: LVIII.; lower center in black ink: DIGNVM PATELLA OPERCVLVM.
Facing page: upper center in (gold?): Inauris aurea et MARGARETVM fulgens, qui / Arguit sapientem, et aurem obediente[m] pro 25. (“As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so is he that reproves the wise and the obedient ear.” Proverbs 25:12) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

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

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