Book Title: Traité de la Communion sous les deux especes. Par Messire Jacques Benigne Bossuet ...

Author: Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704

Image Title: Printer's Device

Scripture Reference:

• Zechariah 5 (further images / scripture text)
• Jeremiah 8 (further images / scripture text)

Description: This printer’s device of an unknown printer features two storks midair fighting over a small serpent above a small rural town or city. The image is wreathed by a serpent-like figure with a stork-shaped head. Nearly identical motifs appear in the printer’s devices of Sebastian Nivelle (1523 – 1603) and Sebastian Cramsoisy (1585 - 1669), but this device lacks a monogram or signature to assign it to either printer. Because serpents were commonly associated with the devil in Christianity, storks--experts at hunting and consuming snakes--were considered a symbol of purification.

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