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Title

Les quarante nouveaux statuts de la Maçonnerie qui fondent les pouvoirs des Chevaliers de l'Aigle ... etc.

Other related names

• Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1194
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4320769
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4320769

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French, with a few citations in Latin

Origin

Date

after 1752

Place

France

Summary

Forty freemasonic ordinances composed by the Chevaliers de l'Aigle (Knights of the Eagle), one of the highest degrees among freemasons in 18th-century France. The statutes include the following topics: the proper procedure for admitting new members and visitors, the process for proposing and adopting new statutes, the proper relationship between the statutes passed at various local lodges and the statutes accepted by the Great Lodge, the assignment of passwords for admission to various lodges, the distribution of marks of recognition to members of the order, the establishment of hierarchies within each lodge, the proper way of granting patents to new lodges, the method of coding messages in hieroglyphics. Following the 40 statutes are 2 catechisms addressed to the Chevaliers de l'Orient et d'Occident (Knights of the East and the West) and the Chevaliers d'Aigle.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from title for predominant work (f. 2r).
   
• Incipit: Commes nous nous sommes apperçus qu'il se glissoit differents abus au fait de l'exercise de la très sublime Maçonnerie, et voulant y pouvoir par les voies les plus efficaces...(f. 2r); Explicit: ...le 24 Juin 1754 de l'[É]gire vulgaire, etoient signés Serenissime Protecteur, le Vénérable et Sougrand Sécrétaire avec les deux grands Surveillants (f. 16r-17v).
   

Watermark

Coat of arms with a horn; name of papermaker under the coat of arms is Vander Ley.

Extent

34 leaves : 195 x 152 (175 x 135) mm. bound to 200 x 160 mm

Foliation

Paper, 34 leaves, [i, 1-31, ii]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth.

Layout

Written in 21-22 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover; inscription dated 1876 f. i recto).
   

Subjects topical

• Freemasonry--France--Early works to 1800
• Freemasonry--Rituals--Early works to 1800
• Freemasonry--Law and legislation--France

Genres

• Codices
• Catechisms
• Bylaws (administrative records)
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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