Guide to the Ludwig Wittgenstein Manuscript Notebooks,
1914-1951.

Collection Number: 6880

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Date completed:
April 2010
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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Ludwig Wittgenstein manuscript notebooks, 1914-1951.
Collection Number:
Creator:
Ludwig, Wittgenstein 1889-1951.
Quantity:
98 volumes.
Forms of Material:
Manuscripts, Research Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Incomplete set of Wittgenstein's manuscript notes.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Incomplete set of Wittgenstein's manuscript notes, including several pre-Tractatus notebooks, and notes for Philosophische Bemerkungen, Philosophische Grammatik, Grundlagen der Mathematik, Philosophische Untersuchungen (fair copy of part 2), Anmerkungen, "Philosophical Lecture," and other works. Volumes are numbered 1-105b, but several volumes are lacking: v. 1, 6, 28, 43, 59, 72-73, 80-84, 87, 91-92, 95, 97, and 104. A few volume numbers are also used more than once (as in v. 53a and 53b, 56a and 56b, etc.). Bound in red library buckram.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Wittgenstein, Ludwig,1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Restrictions on Use:
May not be quoted or reproduced without permission of the owner of the originals.
Cite As:
Ludwig Wittgenstein manuscript notebooks, #6880. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Manuscript Photocopies
1914
Pre-Tractatus notebook
 Volume 2
1914-1915
Pre-Tractatus notebook
 Volume 3
1916
Pre-Tractatus notebook
 Volume 4
1918
Prototractatus
 Volume 5
1929
Band I: Philosophische Bemerkungen
 Volume 7
undated
Band II
 Volume 8
undated
Band III: Philosophische Betrachtungen
 Volume 9
undated
Band IV
 Volume 10
undated
Band V
 Volume 11
undated
Band VI: Philosophische Bemerkungen
 Volume 12
undated
Band VII
 Volume 13
undated
Band VIII: Philosophische Grammatik
 Volume 14
undated
Band IX: Philosophische Grammatik
 Volume 15
1932-1933
Band X: Philosophische Grammatik
 Volume 16
1933-1934
Band XI: Philosophische Bemerkungen - Fortsetzung
Volume 17
1936, 1945
Band XII: Philosophische Bemerkungen XII
 Volume 18
1937, 1938, 1940
Band XIII
 Volume 19
1937 August-October
Band XIV
 Volume 20
1937 September-November
Band XV
 Volume 21
1937-1938
Band XVI
 Volume 22
1938-1939
Band XVII: Philosophische Bemerkungen
 Volume 23
1939-1940
Band XVIII: Philosophische Bemerkungen
 Volume 24
1940, 1941
Manuscript notebook: Philosophische Bemerkungen
Volume 25
1941, 1944
Manuscript volume
 Volume 26
1942-1944
Manuscript volume
 Volume 27
1942-1943
Manuscript photocopy: Grundlagen der Mathematik
Volume 29
1943, 1944
Manuscript Photocopy: Grundlagen der Mathematik F
Volume 30
1944
Manuscript volume
 Volume 31
1944, 1946
Manuscript volume
 Volume 32
1946 August-September
Manuscript volume
 Volume 33
1946 September-October
Manuscript volume
 Volume 34
1946-1947
Manuscript volume
 Volume 35
1947 February-June
Manuscript volume
 Volume 36
1947 July-December
Manuscript volume
 Volume 37
1947-1948
Manuscript volume: Band Q
 Volume 38
1948-1949
Manuscript volume: Band R
 Volume 39
1949
Manuscript volume: Band S
 Volume 40
1932-1933
Grosses Format
 Volume 41
1935-1936
Beginning of Brown Book in German
 Volume 42
1948
Manuscript fair copy: Philosophische Untersuchungen Part II
Volume 44
1933
Large manuscript notebook: C-1
 Volume 45
1933-1934
Large manuscript notebook: C-2
 Volume 46
1934
Large manuscript notebook: C-3
 Volume 47
1934-1935
Large manuscript notebook: C-4
 Volume 48
1935-1936
Large manuscript notebook: C-5
 Volume 49
1935-1936
Large manuscript notebook: C-6
 Volume 50
1936
Large manuscript notebook: C-7
 Volume 51
1936
Large manuscript notebook: C-8
 Volume 52
1931
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 53a
1931 or 1932
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 53b
1931
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 54
1931
Manuscript notebook: Anmerkungen
 Volume 55
1932-1933 or 1933-1934
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 56a
1932-1933 or 1933-1934
Manuscript notebook: Continuation of 56a
 Volume 56b
1934, 1937
Two manuscript notebooks in 1 volume
 Volume 57
1938
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 58
1938
Two manuscript notebooks in 1 volume
 Volume 60
1939
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 61
1939, 1940
Two manuscript notebooks in 1 volume
 Volume 62
1941
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 63
1942
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 64
1941-1944
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 65
1944
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 66
undated
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 67
after 1945
Notes on Frazer's Golden Bough: manuscript and typescript
Volume 68
Manuscript notebook: "Philosophical Lecture"
Volume 69
1949; undated
Manuscript notebook no. 4; manuscript notebook
Volume 70
1949
Manuscript notebook no. 2
 Volume 71
early 1950
Short manuscript
 Volume 74
1950
Manuscript notebook no. 5
 Volume 75
1950
Manuscript notebook
 Volume 76
1950
Manuscript notebook no. 7
 Volume 76b
1950-1951
Manuscript notebook no. 1
 Volume 77
1951; 1951 April
Manuscript notebook no. 6; Last notebook
 Volume 78
undated
Seven fragments
 Volume 79
1929; 1927
Lecture on Ethics; Letter to Ramsey
 Volume 85
1929-1930
Typescript
 Volume 86
1931-1932
Early version, big typescript
 Volume 88a-88c
1932-1933
Final version, big typescript
 Volume 89a-89d
1931-1932
Nine short typescripts from period of big typescript
Volume 90
1937
Philosophische Untersuchungen, 1937 version
 Volume 93a
1937-1938
Phil. Untersuchungen, 1937 version, continued; 1938 preface
Volume 93b
undated
Revised continuation of Phil. Untersuchungen, 1937 version
Volume 94
undated
Translation by Rhees of Phil. Untersuchungen, Part I
Volume 96
undated
Das Uberraschende in der Mathematik, and corresponding remarks in Bemerkungen I and II
Volume 98
1914; 1932-1933; 1946-1947
Notes on logic; Diktat fur Schlick; Notes on freedom of the will
Volume 99
undated
Bemerkungen I
 Volume 100
undated
Bemerkungen I, continued
 Volume 101
1945-1946
Bemerkungen II
 Volume 102
1947-1948
Typescript rearrangement of Bande Q and R
 Volume 103
1929-1948
Zettel I
 Volume 105a
1929-1948
Zettel II
 Volume 105b
Manuscripts Lacking
1914?
See volume 99 for more 1914 writings
 Volume 1
undated
German manuscript of Lecture on Ethics
 Volume 6
undated
Perhaps identical with volume 26
 Volume 28
undated
Early manuscript of Philosophische Untersuchungen, now lost
Volume 43
1938?
See volume 60 (vol. 59 was likely similar)
 Volume 59
1949?
Could have been Manuscript notebook no. 3, missing
Volume 72
undated
See vol. 70
 Volume 73
1913 September
"Notes on Logic"
 Volume 80
undated
Engelmann typescript of Tractatus
 Volume 81
undated
Vienna typescript of Tractatus
 Volume 82
undated
Gmunden typescript of Tractatus, lost
 Volume 83
undated
Unpublished Vorwort to Worterbuch
 Volume 84
undated
Final version of Moore typescript, lost; exists in photocopies
Volume 87
undated
See vol. 99
 Volume 91
undated
See vol. 93b
 Volume 92
undated
Typescript of final version of Phil. Untersuchungen, lost
Volume 95
undated
Could be typescript on Godel, not accounted for
Volume 97
undated
See vol. 103
 Volume 104