The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic GuildScott, Leader
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The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic Guild
Scott, Leader
Cathedrals; Church architecture; Guilds
Cap. XIII. How the feast of the Four Holy Martyrs is to be kept.[216]
Cap. XIV. On the entry of a foreign Master into the guild.
Cap. XV. _Di chi vietasse il pegno al messo._ (I can get no clear
translation of this; I think it means a pledge on receiving a
commission.)
Cap. XVI. The _camarlengo_ shall hand over all receipts to the Grand
Master.
Cap. XVII. On the salaries of officials of the guild.
Cap. XVIII. How _fêtes_ must be kept (fines of five soldi to all who
work on _feste_. Forty-nine _fête_ days are named).
Cap. XIX. One who is sworn to another guild cannot be either the Grand
Master or _camarlengo_.
Cap. XX. That the _camarlengo_ keeps for the guild all moneys received
from _sottoposti_ (brethren of lower rank).
Cap. XXI. On good faith in receiving a commission.
Cap. XXII. How members are to be buried.
Cap. XXIII. How to insure against risks.
Cap. XXIV. No arguments or business discussions to be held in the
public streets.
Cap. XXV. How the _fête_ of the guild is to be kept, the rectors to
have full power to command.
Cap. XXVI. How wax candles shall be sent to the monks of the
Mantellini for the _festa_.
Cap. XXVII. How tithes are to be paid.
Cap. XXVIII. That all orders come from the Grand Master.
Cap. XXIX. How the outgoing officials shall instruct the new ones.
(_i.e._ The council of administration which was changed periodically.)
Cap. XXX. That no Master may undertake a second work till the first
has been paid.
Cap. XXXI. Brick-makers and quarry-men must abide by the rules of the
guild.
* * * * *
Cap. XXXIV. On those who lie against others.
Cap. XXXV. Those who demand a meeting or consultation shall pay
fifteen soldi to the guild.
Cap. XXXVI. That the Grand Master on retiring from office shall call
three _riveditori_[217] to examine his accounts.
Cap. XXXIX. That no master of woodwork shall work in stone.
Cap. XL. The _Breve_ (statutes) shall be revised every year.
Cap. XLI. On the entry into the lodge, of Masters from the city or
neighbourhood.
The statutes are very fair and well composed, and must certainly have
been made from long experience in the guild.
In 1447 we find a further split. The Masters of wood-carving secede
from the sculptors in stone, and form their own statutes. Little by
little, as art becomes more perfect and requires more freedom, the
Masonic monopoly of centuries is dissolving.
We must now return to the building of the Duomo by this multitude of
brethren.
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