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 Ecclesiastes

Scripture Reference:

• Ecclesiastes 1 (further images / scripture text)

Description: Outside the still-crumbling ruins of buildings, a few cornucopias of coin spill across a ground laden with debris, including a crown, pearl ornaments, and an unlocked chest. Above the desolate scene, a hand emerges from a cloud, displaying a ribbon emblazoned with scripture (Ecclesiastes 1:2): “Vanité des Vanités, et tout est vanité” (French for “Vanity of vanities; all is vanity”). Dutch engraver Jacobus Harrewijn (1660-1727), has placed his signature left of center.

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