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Metadata
Title |
"Book of the Lodge" |
Catalog Number |
V53-13 a-h |
Object |
Music, sheets |
Description |
The Song pages of a book which contains a series of Masonic Emblems symbolizing the Three Degrees of Masonry, with additional pages that show the Jewels of Office and Songs for use during rituals. Within this online collection, the book is numbered A53-128, and within the library collection the book is numbered M14.2 M23. These pages are the eighteenth to twenty-fifth in a book titled the "Book of the Lodge." When it was published in 1855, it was "handsomely and substantially bound in various styles, suitable for the library, the Lodge room, or the centre table. Those for Lodges are designed for the use of the Master or Lecturer, and are divided into four parts, 1, Entered Apprentice; 2, Fellow Craft; 3, Master Mason; 4, Music. Every plate is mounted upon firm Bristol board, elaborately ornamented, each part being held together with ribbons, running through eyelet-holes....Those for the library, or centre table, are tastefully bound in Turkey morroco backs and corners, with cloth and superbly gilt sides." (Macoy, 1856) |
Date |
1855 |
circa |
1851 |
Place |
United States |
Material |
Paper; cardboard; metal; paint (gold); ink (black) |
Credit |
Grand Lodge of New York |