SCOTTISH MOTHER-LODGE OF MARSEILLE. - CATECHISM adopted by t - Lot 95

SCOTTISH MOTHER-LODGE OF MARSEILLE. - CATECHISM adopted by the T∴ R∴ L∴ St-Jean of Scotland, Scottish Mother-Lodge of France at the O∴ of Marseilles. S.l.n.n., 5801 [1801, i.e. 1804 or shortly thereafter]. 3 parts in a small in-8 volume, ornate brown half-basin (period binding). 16-8-8 pp. including 3 title pages. Tuileur for the first three grades: "Catechisme d'apprentif", "Catechisme de Compagnon", "Maître symbolique". Woodcut seal of the Mère-Loge Écossaise de Marseille on the titles. Only the first part of this Catechism was known to Fesch (col. 261). CONNECTS WITH THE FOLLOWING: - GRADE DE MAITRE PARFAIT ÉCOSSOIS". Leaves extracted from a printed work in-12, paginated 140 to 162, with handwritten title of the period. - MANUSCRIT TUILEUR in 4 parts, on in-12 azure paper leaves: "GRADE DE CHEVALIER DE L'ORIENT" (5 pp. on 8 ff.), "GRADE DE SOUVERAIN PRINCE ROSE CROIX" (approx. 63 pp. on 34 ff. in erroneous pagination), "GRADE DE CHEVALIER TEMPLIER OU GRAND ÉLU" (29 pp. on 15 ff., in incomplete pagination following the previous one), "MOTS SACRES, MOTS DE PASSE, ET AGE DES DIVERS GRADES" (3 pp. 1/4 sur 3 ff.), concerning 10 grades: "Apprentice", "Companion", "Simbolic Master", "Perfect Master", "Chosen Master of[s] 9", "True Scotsman of Scotland", "Knight of the East", "S[openain] P[rince] Rosicrucian", "Noachite Knight or Prussian Knight", "Grand Chosen or Knight Templar". PRECIOUS WITNESSES TO THE EVOLUTION OF RITUALS AT THE MERE-LOGE DE MARSEILLE.