UNIVERSAL

HARMONY

original title: "Harmonie Universelle"

A seventeenth-century engraving shows the mythological figure Orpheus sitting at the base of a large tree while playing a cithara, a type of ancient lyre. He is surrounded by animals, including a horse, a lion, a stag, a monkey, a dog, a rabbit, and a tortoise. These animals gather peacefully to hear his music. Camels are visible in the mountainous background. The scene is contained within a rectangular frame.

From an ancient marble belonging to the most illustrious Marquis Mattei in Rome.

original: "Ex antiquo marmore Illustrissimi Marchionis Mathei Romæ." This refers to a specific piece of Roman sculpture owned by the Mattei family. Engraved by Henri le Roy

For I will also praise your truth upon musical instruments:
O God, I will sing to you upon the cithara, O Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 70

original: "Nam & ego confitebor tibi in vasis psalmi veritatē tuam: Deus psallam tibi in Cithara, sanctus Israel." A cithara was a professional version of the lyre in antiquity. This citation follows the Vulgate numbering; in modern Bibles, this text is found in Psalm 71:22.