Book Title: La vie de S. Basile le Grand, archevesque de Cesaree en Cappadoce, et celle de S. Gregoire de Nazianze archevesque de Constantinople, : divisees en douze livres. Dont les dix premiers representent la suitte de leurs actions & celles de plusieurs saints de leur siecle, & les deux derniers contiennent le paralelle de leurs vertus, & la conformité de leur doctrine. / Par M. Godefroy Hermant ...

Author: Hermant, Godefroy, 1617-1690

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Description: This historiated headpiece depicts a winged angel flying above a city holding a scale with the Latin phrase from the apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus (also known as Sirach): SIMILES ILLOS FECIT IN GLORIA SANCTORUM which means “he made him equal of the holy ones in glory”.

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