| Compasses in Bible art
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| The idea of God as a “Great Architect” predates speculative Freemasonry: here reproduced from the Bible Moralisée, circa 1250. [Bible moralisee. Codex Vindobonensis 2554 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Darmstadt 1998. Lizenzausgabe für die Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.]
Further examples can be seen in such works as Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia, and Astronomer,and mediaeval manuscripts. |