TUILEUR ILLUSTRÉ. - MANUSCRIT. 2 folio volumes,... - Lot 124 - Pescheteau-Badin

TUILEUR ILLUSTRÉ. - MANUSCRIT. 2 folio volumes, bound in silk ribbon (blue for one, brown for the other). [Probably late 18th century]. (29) + (29) azure paper ff.; wetness on one of the two volumes; one illustrated leaf detached and frayed. Tuileur for the grades of Companion, Master, Perfect Master, English Perfect Master, Elected Master of the first, second and third grades, Illustrious Master. ILLUSTRATION OF 8 FULL-PAGE COLOR COMPOSITIONS (India ink and pen with watercolor highlights), one for each grade concerned. With an ornamental cul-de-lampe (brown ink and pen). A note by the same hand, repeated at the end of the Perfect Master and English Perfect Master rituals, states "Collationné à l'original par le f. d'Huc, prince équitable de Jérusalem". Could this be Chevalier Louis-Philippe Auguste d'Huc, founder and Venerable of the L'Ancienne et la Réunion des Élus Lodge in Montpellier? Two contemporary enclosures containing the texts of two speeches by an initiate.