Ludwig Wittgenstein manuscript notebooks, 1914-1951.
Collection Number: 6880

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Ludwig Wittgenstein manuscript notebooks, 1914-1951.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

6880

Abstract:

Incomplete set of Wittgenstein's manuscript notes.

Creator:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. (Title of work: Philosophische Bemerkungen..)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. (Title of work: Philosophische Grammatik..)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. (Title of work: Grundlagen der Mathematik..)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. (Title of work: Anmerkungen..)

Quanitities:

98 volumes.

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.

Restrictions on Use:

May not be quoted or reproduced without permission of the owner of the originals.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Ludwig Wittgenstein manuscript notebooks, #6880. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

CONTAINER LIST

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

Contents

Ludwig Wittgenstein manuscript notebooks, 1914-1951. Collection Number: 6880

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

Ludwig Wittgenstein manuscript notebooks, 1914-1951.
Collection Number: 6880

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library