Identifier: strayleavesfromf00neal (find matches)
Title: Stray leaves from a Freemason's notebook
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Neale, Erskine
Subjects: Freemasonry
Publisher: J.W. Leonard, Masonic Publishers

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is as ancient as Solomon's Temple. About the beginning of the
fourteenth century, the art de couper des pierres, was still held a
secret, and the professors of this mystery were called the" Cotterie."
Maturin Jousse called his treatise, from this circumstance, Secret
d'Architecture. WARE'S Memoir in the Archceologia, vol xvii. p.
83.
Finally. Let me request my learned reader, who would pursue

* Dureri Instit. Geometricarum, lib. ii. p. 56. He uses it as a name well
known, and familial- as that of circle, triangle, &c. " Designa circino invariato
tres piscium vesicas."
† See an illustration in King Edgar's book of Grants to Winchester Cathedral,
engraved by Strutt in his Royal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities.

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this development farther, and into later times, to explore the recon-
dite pages of the following work :—
Liber secretorum fidelium crucis super Terree Sanctee recuperahone
et conservatione. [Printed in the second part of the GESTA DEI of
BONGARS. This treatise of MARINUS SANUTUS, a Venetian noble-
man, was commenced in 1306, and finished in 1321.]
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