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Ms-139a
Loose sheets Ms-139a, Lecture on Ethics (1929): One of two surviving manuscripts of the so-called Lecture on Ethics delivered to The Heretics, a Cambridge student society, on 17 November 1929 at the request of C K Ogden. A second manuscript (Ms-139b) was known to exist in Gmunden in 1952, but was missing until it was rediscovered in the Nachlass of Rudolf and Elisabeth Koder. Ts-207 is a typescript of the lecture, whose text differs somewhat from this manuscript. -- The text is in English in pencil on loose sheets of 204x330 mm. There are 12 sheets.
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Ms-140
Loose sheets Ms-140, Grosses Format (1934 and 1936): This manuscript is essentially a rewriting of pages 31v-59r of the second part of Ms-114: there are a number of references between the two manuscripts. There is also a reference to the 'Kleines Format' which is now missing. The last page, 39v, is from 1936 and contains drafts for the beginning of a version of the Investigations. -- Ms-140 is written in pen and pencil on large-format sheets (mostly bifolia) forming a manuscript of 39 sheets with text on both sides, each 300 x 470 mm. The language of the manuscript is German.
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Ms-141
Loose sheets Ms-141 (1933-34): The beginning of a version of the Brown Book in German. -- The manuscript is written in pen and contains 10 loose sheets similar to those used for Ms-140, measuring 300 x 470 mm, of which only seven pages contain text and one drawings.
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Ts-201a1
Typescript Ts-201a1, Notes on Logic (1913): This variant of the so-called Russell version of the "Notes on Logic" is kept at the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University, Canada. The group of items which form Ts-201a consists of a dictation and recorded conversation with Russell (Ts-201a1), a unified typescript (Ts-201a2), and a later typescript (Ts-201a3) which is closest to the text published in 1979. -- Ts-201a1 starts with a title page and consists of two sections on 34 loose typescript sheets; the first typed (pages A1-A7), the second handwritten (pages B1-B26).
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Ts-201a2
Typescript Ts-201a2, Notes on Logic (1913): This variant of the so-called Russell version of the "Notes on Logic" is kept at the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University, Canada. The group of items which form Ts-201a consists of a dictation and recorded conversation with Russell (Ts-201a1), a unified typescript (Ts-201a2), and a later typescript (Ts-201a3) which is closest to the text published in 1979. -- Ts-201a2 starts with a title page and consists of two sections on 34 loose typescript sheets; the first typed (pages A1-A8), the second handwritten (pages B1-B25).
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Ts-207
Typescript Ts-207, Lecture on Ethics (1929 or later): Typescript of the Lecture on Ethics. This is essentially a typescript of Ms-139b, though differing in a number of points, Ms-139b being itself a second manuscript draft of the lecture, the first being Ms-139a. -- It consists of 10 loose typescript sheets measuring 224 x 285 mm. The language of the lecture is English.
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Ts-212
Cuttings Ts-212 (1932): This typescript is constructed from cuttings from Ts-208, 210 and 211. Cuttings are grouped into chapters and sections using folded sheets of paper on which Wittgenstein has written ‘chapter’ headings. -- It consists of loose typescript sheets of various sizes with pencil ‘chapter’ headings. The language of the typescript is German.
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Ts-213
Typescript Ts-213, Big Typescript (1932-33): This copy of the typescript (Ts-213(i)) has been heavily annotated by Wittgenstein up to p 292 and from p 354 to p 432. This and the following typescripts (Tss 214-218 ) consist of the content of Ts-212 typed out. The pagination begins with 0. There is also an unpaginated list of ‘chapter headings’ marked ‘given by Rush Rhees Jan 1970’. There are a few annotations by the Trustees, particularly by G H von Wright throughout the sections on the foundations of mathematics, which appears at one time to have been separated from the rest of the typescript. There are also second copies of pp 0-528 (Ts-213(ii)) and pp 529-768 (Ts-213(iii)), neither of which are annotated. -- It consists of 778 loose typescript sheets. The language of the typescript is German.
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Ts-310
Typescript Ts-310, Brown Book (1934-35): The Brown Book was dictated by Wittgenstein to Francis Skinner and Alice Ambrose during the period from mid-October 1934 to spring 1935. After dictation a few copies were made without Wittgenstein’s permission and, bound in a brown cover, it was these copies that were known as the Brown Book. Further “editions” were later made. A manuscript version exists in the hand of Francis Skinner amongst papers deposited at Trinity College Library. An attempt of Wittgenstein to translate the Brown Book into German can be seen in the second part of Ms-115. The Brown Book was first published by the Wittgenstein Trustees in ‘Preliminary studies for the "Philosophical Investigations" generally known as the Blue and Brown Books’, 1958. -- Carbon copy typescript on loose sheets 203x265 mm clipped into a loose-leaf folder 241x301 mm. 170 sheets.