Ars Quatuor Coronatorum

La rivista Ars Quator Coronatorum è espressione della loggia di ricerca più antica al mondo, la Quatuor Coronati Lodge, all'obbedienza della Gran Loggia Unita d'Inghilterra.

Descrizione in lingua orginale: Published annually since 1886, Ars Quatuor Coronatorum is the longest continuously running Masonic Research Journal in the world. Collectively, AQC’s volumes form a repository of Masonic history and research, and are regarded as one of the most important sources available. A list of past articles can be found here.

The Transactions is required reading for anyone interested in Masonic history or considering researching an article for presentation and/or publication. In addition to research papers and articles, AQC includes reviews of the latest books on the history of Freemasonry and details the contents of other Masonic journals.

The Quatuor Coronati Lodge was founded in 1884 (consecrated 1886) by nine brethren who were intent on using an evidence-based approach to the study of Masonic history and research into Freemasonry. This innovative approach was intended to replace the imaginative writings of earlier authors on the history of Freemasonry. This new style and approach was later to be referred to as the 'authentic school' of Masonic research.

The Founders planned to develop an interest in research among Brethren everywhere, to have papers read and discussed in Lodge and published in its transactions Ars Quatuor Coronatorum (AQC). The Lodge thus hoped to attract the attention and enlist the cooperation of Masonic scholars and lecturers in all parts of the world.

The original 'Main Objects' of the Lodge were set out on page 34 of AQC Vol. 1 for 1887 and are worth repeating here:

To provide a centre and bond of union for Masonic Students.

To attract intelligent masons to its meetings, in order to imbue them with a love for masonic research.

To submit the discoveries or conclusions of students to the judgment and criticism of their fellows by means of papers read in Lodge.

To submit these communications and the discussions arising thereon to the general body of the Craft by publishing, at proper intervals, the Transactions of the Lodge in its entirety.

To reprint scarce and valuable works on Freemasonry, and to publish Manuscripts, etc.

To make the English-speaking Craft acquainted with the progress of masonic study abroad, by translations (in whole or part) of foreign works.

To tabulate concisely, in the printed Transactions of the Lodge, the progress of the Craft throughout the world.

To acquire permanent premises and form a masonic library and museum.

Quatuor Coronati Lodge, the Premier Lodge of Masonic Research, continues today to work to the standards laid down in 1884 and we strive to maintain the high quality of research papers, lectures and discussion established at our foundation.

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