Book Title: Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde / représentées en 243. figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picard, avec des explications historiques, & curieuses par M. l'abbé Banier, & par M. l'Abb'e le Mascrier.

Author: Banier, M. l'abbé (Antoine), 1673-1741

Image Title: Title Page

Description: The title page of the General History of the Ceremonies, Customs and Religious Traditions of the World. Clockwise from the top Christianity is represented by angels surrounding the Bible, bearing the Latin phrase “biblia sacra concilia et traditiones” (“The Holy Biblecouncils, and traditions”) 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, andJudaism 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” (The Son of Heaven found and carved this).

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