Religious Ceremonies and Customs  

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Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples représésentés par des figures dessinées par Bernard Picart (published in ten volumes from 1723 to 1737) is a work edited by Jean Frédéric Bernard, with contributions by Antoine-Augustin Bruzen de La Martinière, featuring illustrations by French engraver Bernard Picart.

Jonathan I. Israel calls Cérémonies "an immense effort to record the religious rituals and beliefs of the world in all their diversity as objectively and authentically as possible." Since Picart had never left Europe, he relied on accounts by those who had, and had access to a collection of Indian sculpture. The original French edition of "Cérémonies" comprises ten volumes of text and engravings.

English translation

Religious Ceremonies and Customs, a translation of Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples représésentés par des figures dessinées par Bernard Picart

Full title

Religious Ceremonies and Customs, or the Forms of Worship Practised by the Several Nations of the Known World, from the Earliest Records to the Present Time. On the Basis of the Celebrated and Splendid Work of Bernard Picart. To Which Is Added, a Brief View of Minor Sects, Which Exist at the Present Day; Designed Especially for the Use of Families; Not Only as Entertaining and Instructive, but of Great Importance as a Work of Reference.

by Charles A. Goodrich and William Burder.

Publishing history

Soon after Bernard Picart’s Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde representées par des figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picard: avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses (Amsterdam: J.F. Bernard 1723-1737) had been put on the papal index, Antoine Banier and Jean-Baptiste Le Mascrier published a plagiarized/adapted/censored version under the title Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde: représentées en 243 figures. Dessinées au main de Bernard Picard. Avec des explications… par Banier et Mascrier (Paris: Rollin 1741)

"Cérémonies" engravings

• Vol. 1: Asie, Afrique and Amérique (Asia, Africa and America)- 30 engravings
• Vol. 2 - 33 engravings
• Vol. 3 - 19 engravings
• Vol. 4 - 14 engravings
• Vol. 5 - 26 engravings
• Vol. 6 - 45 engravings
• Vol. 7 - 58 engravings
• Vol. 8 - 5 engravings
• Vol. 9 - 24 engravings
• Vol. 10- 12 engravings

See also

• Detail of all the world's religions[1]
• Jean Frédéric Bernard
• Antoine-Augustin Bruzen de La Martinière
• Sami people of Lapland offering to the pre-Christian god Tiermes or Thoron