Culinary Alchemy: The Masonic Cook Manuscript of 1450

Doctor Anderson drew from many sources to enable him to revise the older Gothic Masonic Constitutions. He never names them, so we don't know how many of these older documents he had available.

Did Anderson use the Cook Manuscript of 1450? Let's see what Google search says about this:

"Doctor Anderson Cooke Manuscript Use

There is no direct evidence that Doctor Anderson used the Cooke Manuscript of 1450. However, the Cooke Manuscript was used by Anderson in his own version of the "Constitutions" published in 1723, specifically lines 901-960 of the manuscript.5

The Cooke Manuscript, also known as the Matthew Cooke Manuscript (British Museum: “Additional M.S. 23,198”), was written around 1450 and was in the possession of Mr. George Payne when he compiled the "General Regulations" during his second term as Grand Master in 1720.5 Anderson included these regulations in his version of the "Constitutions" published in 1723.5

Therefore, while Doctor Anderson did not directly use the Cooke Manuscript, he incorporated parts of it into his work."

What will we learn?

Why was this manuscript dated to about 1450?

Where did they write this document?

Will it have the Legend of the Craft?

Why does the Curmudgeon Supreme keep breathing so heavily into the mic, and why does he not mute it?

We will get into all of these questions and more.

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