Illustrated title page of Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde

Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733

The title page of Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, featurnig an engraving depicting, clockwise from the top, Christianity represented by angels surrounding the Bible, bearing the Latin phrase “biblia sacra concilia et traditiones” and a woman holding a communion chalice, Buddhism by two men praying (bottom right), Islam by one man reading the Qu’ran to his suffering companion, and Judaism by a woman reading the Old Testament, as a blindfolded woman with bat wings holds a lantern for her (left). The Latin inscription below reads, “Coelum filius Invenit et Sculpsit”.

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