[Collection Resolutien der Groote Loge]

Comprehensive and UNIQUE collection of documents concerning the internal organisation of freemasonry in the Netherlands and in the Batavian Republic. A total of ca. 3750 text pages and ca. 460 documents, compiled in 8 folio bindings (new and uniform bindings, half leather with marbled boards and title on spine in gilt stamping). A sizable part of the documents was signed by the Grand Secretary or other high-ranking officers. Resolutions, reports, announcements, decrees concerning elections, the establishment of Lodges, alterations to rituals, administrative affairs, finances, legal affairs, the nature and current state of freemasonry.

The collection concerns original documents by the central administration of the freemasons, of which Prince Frederick of the Netherlands was National Grand Master for more than 50 years. Binding 1: Resolutien van het Groot-Oosten der Bataafsche Republiek 1797-1808. Binding 2: Resolutien van het Groot-Oosten in Holland 1809-1819. Binding 3: Resolutien der Groote Loge van Holland 1820-1829. Binding 4: Resolutien der Groote Loge van Bestuur 1830-1839 Binding 5: Resolutien van het Groot-Oosten 1840-1854. Binding 6: Idem 1855-1864. Binding 7: Idem 1865-1874. Binding 8: Idem 1875-1889. Bindings, texts and documents in near-perfect condition.