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[FREEMASONRY – MARSEILLE]. MANUSCRIPT.
See original version (French)
49
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[FREEMASONRY – MARSEILLE]. MANUSCRIPT.
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
[FREEMASONRY – MARSEILLE]. MANUSCRIPT.
Sovereign Chapter of ‘Aimable Sagesse’.
Marseille, March 1820.
Loose sheets, watermarked laid paper, square folio (52 x 55 cm), ruled in pencil, brown ink, black engraved vignette at the top (a radiant star with the name of the lodge at its centre), (creases and slight soiling, a small tear in the centre and minor tears at the edges and along the folds, no missing pages, edges slightly rubbed in places, some wear caused by the ink).
Early 19th-century Masonic manuscript.
Chart, bearing a large red wax seal (5 x 6 cm) of the Sovereign Chapter of ‘Aimable Sagesse’ in the Valley of Marseille.
With various autograph signatures of the Venerables of the Lodge.
Dated 1820.
Chart of the FF:. Chev:. Comprising the Sovereign Chapter under the distinctive title of ‘Aimable Sagesse’, duly constituted in the Valley of Marseille on the 30th day of the month called ‘Thisri’, in the 5th year of the Mastery of the 56th G:. M.: in the Year of Regeneration, 30 March 1820. The roll lists the first names and surnames, as well as the civil (occupations) and Masonic ranks of each Knight.
Honorific and official titles with autographs at the bottom of the roll.
An interesting document for the history of Freemasonry in early 19th-century Provence.
Marseille was a long-established and very active centre of Freemasonry, with numerous lodges. The seal is virtually intact. It bears a cross set within a radiating crown of thorns, two branches and a crown bearing the name of the Lodge.
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