Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is an ecclesiastical history published in Paris by Jean Mariette, with the imprint dated 1738 and the work attributed to Claude-Pierre Goujet, written for a learned readership of church history. Its four pictures are a repeated floral basket ornament framed by acanthus scrolls, a classical head-and-banner vignette with the motto HAEC META LABOR, and a title panel of robed churchmen and monks in a Gothic hall, which a designer could draw on for scrollwork, emblematic framing, and engraved historical scenes.
