The Masonic Museum: Ancient Tracing Boards and other Images of Freemasonry Hardcover – February 12, 2025

In recent years many old Masonic documents have become available to the general public. This book is not a book with high resolution images, but more a catalogue. Nothing more, yet nothing less, than a large collection of little known images, listing their sources, so that you can look up the document where it came from.All sources, but one, are public domain and can be freely accessed online. The one acception was added with version 3.0 of this book. For the first time ever, this books contains all images of the six volume Cayers Maçonniques (Vol. I) / Maçonnerie des Hommes (Vol. II-VI) of which the first volume is in possession of the National Library of Australia and the other volumes in possession of the Grand Orient of the Netherlands. The latter have brought the entire Kloss collection to the public domain. Of the former I have permission to republish the seldom seen original drawings.In this book you will find images from the Kloss collection, Fonds Gaborria, Fonds Maçonnique, the Mutus Liber Latomorum, La Géométrie/Physique/Alchemie du Maçon, Vuillaume's Manuel Maçonnique 'Manuscrit Tarade', 'Manuscrit Quesada' and a few sources with fewer images. The youngest source is from 1820, hence, all images are over 200 years old and most documents are within the public domain. I think that for the first time such a large number of these images are presented together.Be amazed how early some images were already present, compare different drawings, see what symbols were used when or where, find images by the names of their degrees, but most of all: found out where the images come from and check out the sources themselves. No explanations or context, only images and their sources, plus a list with titles of degrees with their sources. Read more