Book Title: La Sainte Bible / traduite en françois sur la Vulgate; avec des notes courtes tirées des SS. Peres & des meilleurs interprétes, pour l'intelligence des endroits les plus difficiles, La traduction du Pseautier selon l'Hébreu à côté de la Vulgate, et La concorde des quatre évangelistes: le tout divisé en trois tomes ...

Author: Bible. French. Le Maistre de Sacy. 1700.

Image Title: Historiated Headpiece for the Book of Ecclesiasticus

Scripture Reference:

• Sirach 1 (further images / scripture text)

Description: Seated at his table, author Jesus ben Sirach basks in a ray of light focused upon his head, while three children celebrate his enlightenment. The opening passage of the Book of Ecclesiasticus appears on the writer’s paper: “Omnis sapientia a Domino Deo est” (“All wisdom is from the Lord God”). The artist and engraver, Jacobus Harrewijn (1660-1727), has placed his signature in the bottom center.

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