Allegory on the praise of music, Praise of music (series title), Encomium musices (series title on object), Allegory on the praise of music. Title picture for the series entitled: Encomium Mucies. In the middle an open book with the music notation of the six-part motet: Nata, et grata polo, et vocum discordia concors Musica, scitque homines flectere, scitque Deos. Flectere scitque feras: at quisquis nescius illa flectier, is nec homo, nec fera, sed lapis est (Music is born in heaven and pleases God with its polyphony that sounds in harmony. It can touch both mortals and gods, and it can even

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