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Liberorum Latomorum Primordia Et Recentiora Vera.
round which will be congregated all that Germany has valuable for the Middle Ages , as the King of Bavaria has right royally bestowed upon the central society the immense precinct of the old Carthusian convent within the city , in which that collection and its future additions can be worthily and systematically displayed . This bookNo . 2908 a paper folio of the date
, ,, of 1507 , contains , among other matter , eighty-eight Masons ' marks , with the names of their owners , and their date ; of which the following five are fac-similes for one family , with slight variations for the individuals , as in armorial bearings .
^ yjV * WY T 1495 . 1463 . 1507 .
Jorg koler . hans koler . Jherony koler . 1518 . 1523 . 1527 . franizs koler . Jorg koler . hans ( tegler ) Jiing .
Nor is it entirely to be passed over that the German stonemasons have no other name for their sodalities than Bauhiitte , which our English 'tabernacle' hardly expresses : literally , it means , Building-hut . It is perhaps to Frederick Nicolai , of Berlin , in the history already mentionedgiven as appendix to his Versuch iiber die
, Beschuldigungen welche dem Tempel-herrn-orden gemacht warden , pp . 146—215 , that we possibly owe the first idea of this modern origin of speculative Freemasonry ; and as his view is , to say the least of it , extremely ingenious and plausible , some account of the facts by which he supports it , may not be out of place as supplementary to Monsieur Ragon ' s work , in which it
is not even mentioned ; and may be of interest to the Order , amongst ivhich it made a great sensation at the time of its publication . That the members of the Templar Order , or of the Jesuits , at the periods of their abolition , in 1312 and 1778 respectively , did not entirely lose sight of one another , we may confidently assert . A certain esprit du corps would keep up as frequent
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Liberorum Latomorum Primordia Et Recentiora Vera.
round which will be congregated all that Germany has valuable for the Middle Ages , as the King of Bavaria has right royally bestowed upon the central society the immense precinct of the old Carthusian convent within the city , in which that collection and its future additions can be worthily and systematically displayed . This bookNo . 2908 a paper folio of the date
, ,, of 1507 , contains , among other matter , eighty-eight Masons ' marks , with the names of their owners , and their date ; of which the following five are fac-similes for one family , with slight variations for the individuals , as in armorial bearings .
^ yjV * WY T 1495 . 1463 . 1507 .
Jorg koler . hans koler . Jherony koler . 1518 . 1523 . 1527 . franizs koler . Jorg koler . hans ( tegler ) Jiing .
Nor is it entirely to be passed over that the German stonemasons have no other name for their sodalities than Bauhiitte , which our English 'tabernacle' hardly expresses : literally , it means , Building-hut . It is perhaps to Frederick Nicolai , of Berlin , in the history already mentionedgiven as appendix to his Versuch iiber die
, Beschuldigungen welche dem Tempel-herrn-orden gemacht warden , pp . 146—215 , that we possibly owe the first idea of this modern origin of speculative Freemasonry ; and as his view is , to say the least of it , extremely ingenious and plausible , some account of the facts by which he supports it , may not be out of place as supplementary to Monsieur Ragon ' s work , in which it
is not even mentioned ; and may be of interest to the Order , amongst ivhich it made a great sensation at the time of its publication . That the members of the Templar Order , or of the Jesuits , at the periods of their abolition , in 1312 and 1778 respectively , did not entirely lose sight of one another , we may confidently assert . A certain esprit du corps would keep up as frequent