Earliest of the three surviving pre-Tractatus notebooks containing also some coded diary entries and at the front a note that on Wittgenstein’s death the volume should be sent to Leopoldine Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell: 'Nach meinem Tod zu senden an...'.

Chronological continuation of the previous notebook [MS-101]. Contains some coded diary entries and at the front a note that on Wittgenstein’s death the volume should be sent to Leopoldine Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell: 'Nach meinem Todfe an meine Mutter...'

First line: 'Nur was wir selbst konstruieren'.

Notebook used by Wittgenstein while in Vienna for Christmas 1929 and later as a continuation of MS - 107 [ONB, Vienna]

Notebook continuation of 108 with numerous editorial notes. A portion written in Vienna in December and January in MS-110 fits chronologically within it.

Notebook used by Wittgenstein in Vienna in Dec/Jan 1930-1931 and later as a continuation of 109

Notebook continuation of 110

Notebook containing two distinct texts. The first part is not paginated by Wittgenstein. The second, paginated 1-228 and being continued in the first part of Ms 115 is a revision of part of The Big Typescript. p 21 includes a section containing 3 remarks pasted-in. The Grosses Format (MS-140) is a further reworking of part of this text.

Notebook containing two distinct texts, the first is a continuation of Ms 114. The second, beginning on page 118 and entitled 'Philosophische Untersuchungen, Versuch einer Umarbeitung' is an attempt to revise the Brown Book in German. pp 95-100 consist mostly of pasted-in typescript.

Notebook consisting of four distinct texts. The first is a selection of remarks from TS 213, the second (pp 136-264) is a revision of MS 120, the third (pp 265-315) is original material and the fourth relates to Part I of the Investigations. At the end of the written portion is a letter to Kari [Klingenberg], a friend from Skjolden, 2 Aug. 1945.

Notebook containing a number of distinct parts. The first portion on the philosophy of mathematics overlaps with pp 110 to 126 which contain 3 early drafts for the Philosophical Investigations. pp 148 to 273 are a continuation of ms 122. There are a few coded remarks at the end,

Notebook used in Norway containing remarks on the foundations of mathematics. Includes coded remarks, particularly at the beginning.

Continuation of MS-118. Includes coded remarks. Begins: 'Was wir liefern sind eigentlich...'

Continuation of MS 119 containing numerous coded remarks. Heading, '[Fortsetzung des Heftes XV]...'

Continuation of MS-120

Notebook containing remarks on the foundations of mathematics. Continued in MS-117. Some coded remarks.

Begins 'Kann man sagen, daß der Begriff...'

Begins 'Nun was würde er ein bloßes Denken...'

Used by Wittgenstein while engaged in war-time work. Some coded remarks

Titled by Wittgenstein “Handelt nur von Logic + Mathematik”

Continuation of MS-126

Begins 'Wenn ich nun sage "Ich erwarte"...'

Minute-book style notebook with drafts for the foreword of the Philosophical Investigations in the index section at the front. Text begins 'Vorwort. In dem Folgendem teile ich Gedanken mit..'

First notebook concerned with the nature of psychological concepts. Noted at the front: “Dieses Schreibbuch enthalt fast nur schlechte Satze. Manche von ihnen aber konnen zu besseren Satzen Anregung geben. Die meisten sind blosser Abfall.”

Remarks on the nature of psychological concepts. Begins 'Warum sagt man "Er weiß, was er meint"?'

Remarks on the nature of psychological concepts. Begins 'Wenn das wahr ist, daß wir die Art...'

Remarks on the nature of psychological concepts. Some coded remarks. Begins 'Sagt man nicht von dem, man kenne es...'

Remarks on the nature of psychological concepts. Begins 'Sowie wir hier ein Schema verwenden...'

Remarks on the nature of psychological concepts. Noted at the front “In diesem Band kommt auf 10 oder 20 Seiten nicht mehr als ein halbwege gutter Abschnitt”

Remarks on the nature of psychological concepts

Remarks on the nature of psychological concepts. ff 50 and 123 damaged when G E M Anscombe removed a piece of coded text (a photocopy makes good the remark on the recto)

Remarks on the nature of psychological concepts. Only first 66 pages used. Some coded remarks

This lecture was given to The Heretics, a Cambridge student society, on 17 Nov 1929.

Manuscript on large-format loose sheets which is essentially a rewriting of pages 1-56 of the second part of MS-114 and thus the second reworking of part of the Big Typescript. It needs to be read with this volume as there are a number of references between the two manuscripts. f 38 also contains a reference to the missing ‘kleines format’

Consists of a number of loose sheets on which comments are made by Wittgenstein relating to the abridged edition of the Golden Bough. The numbers in the manuscript appear to relate to pages in this edition. A typescript copy by Rush Rhees accompanies the manuscript.

Begins ' Man kann sich ein Tier zornig, furchtsam, traurig, freudig, erschrocken vorstellen...'

Begins 'Wenn Verstehen ein hypothetischer Zustand ist...'

Begins 'Wenn mir das Bild etwas sagt...'

Continuation of MS-146. Much of the material in English consists of drafts for the Blue and Brown books.Begins (notes on inside front cover) 'We feel at home in the use of the word...'

Consists of two separately-numbered sections consisting mostly of notes for lectures on private experience and sense data and on the philosophy of mathematics.

Continuation of MS-148 consisting mostly of notes for lectures on private experience and sense data

Contains notes associated with the latter part of the Brown Book.Begins, 'Wenn wir uns fragen; worin besteht...'

Consists mostly of notes for lectures on private experience and sense data, with a few pages of notes on the philosophy of mathematics. The notebook is not completely used. At the end of the written part is a draft letter written presumably during WWII on the tone of news reports on the bombing of German citiesBegins 'So kann man z. B. Teile des Nachbildes...'

Consisting of two parts. Pages 38 onwards contains drafts for an early version of the Investigations, pages 1 to 38 contain drafts for a text with a similar title that is found in MS-115.

Contains drafts for MSS 110-112.

Continuation of 153a containing drafts for MSS-112-113

Contains drafts for MS-113. Begins 'Eine Beichte muß ein Teil des neuen Lebens sein'.

Contains drafts for MS-111-112 and notes in English for lectures. Begins 'Es wäre... möglich zu sagen 'Jetzt sehe ich das nicht mehr [?] als eine Rose, sondern nur noch als Pflanze!'

Contains drafts for MS-114

Two silhouettes, probably of Francis Skinner, which were presumably originally loose in the volume. These are now tipped-in on guards

This volume falls essentially into three parts, the German text contains drafts for MS-116. The English section consists of a long draft letter to Gilbert Pattison on the situation in Austria and a discussion of philosophical problems and language

This volume contains remarks on Godel’s proof and notes for lectures. It also includes at the end an early draft of the preface to the pre-war version of the Investigations

Contains drafts for Wittgenstein’s lectures on mathematics and notes for MS-124

Text starts at both ends on the same date and includes some coded remarks.

Consists mostly of remarks on following a rule

Probably written for the British Academy’s Philosophical Lecture of 1942 which Wittgenstein was invited to give but withdrew

Contains remarks taken from MSS-136-138

Mostly blank

Mostly concerns 'the inner and the outer'

This volume deals mostly with concepts of colour but also with the inner/outer question

On the inner and the outer, but mostly unused

On certainty

Continuation of MS-180a. At the back, two stubs where two pages of a letter in English in Wittgenstein’s hand have been cut out.

Not in Wittgenstein's hand

Typescript of notes on identity taken from a typescript in Waissmann’s papers which was itself taken from a letter.

Typescript of MS-139, though differing in certain points from it

Based on MSS-105, 106, 107 and the first half of 108. Contains many manuscript annotations, some on the reverse of the typescript pages. There were originally 144 sheets, but some were removed by Wittgenstein during the composition of 211

Facsimile of a now-lost manuscript based on TS-208. It was reconstructed from cuttings of a carbon-copy of TS-208 pasted into a ledger. In some cases there are two copies of the same pages produced using different copying methods.

Based on pages 133 and following of MS-108. Sheets 43 and 44 are photocopies

Based on MSS-109-113 and the beginning of 114. A number of pages have been moved to ts 213 from which copies have been made and inserted back into this typescript

Constructed from cuttings from TSS-208, 210 and 211. Cuttings are grouped into chapters and sections using folded sheets of paper on which Wittgenstein has written headings.

This copy of the typescript has been heavily annotated by Wittgenstein up to p 292 and from 354 to 432. This and the following typescripts (214-218 ) consist of the content of ts 212 typed out.. The pagination begins with p 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.

This is a clean copy of the typescript.

Not a duplicate typescript, but one attempting to mimic the original. Errors in spelling suggest that it may have been typed by an English typist. It is not certain whether this was produced by Wittgenstein or by his Trustees.

Probably based on the missing ms 142. Page 1 is lost. The three-page introduction is typed on smaller sheets than the main body of the typescript

(i): Typescript, (ii): a second copy, and (iii): a further copy of p. 248 only.

Composed of cuttings from TS-221. It now forms much of Part I of "Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics". With a note by the Trustees

Composed of sheets 246-255 of item 221. Numbered b1-10

Composed of cuttings from item 211. Numbered a1-10

The translation was made by Rush Rhees and amended by Wittgenstein

The manuscript shows clear signs of editing by individuals other than Wittgenstein Annotations in pen are sometimes by Wittgenstein and at other times by Peter Geach and one other hand. A few cuttings and inserts are placed between the sheets as are some notes that are also not in Wittgenstein’s hand.

Some annotations differ from those in TS-227 (i) as do the number of cuttings and inserts, the hands represented in the annotations are the same as those in TS-227 (i)

The pagination of this typescript follows on from TS-228 as does the numbering of the remarks. However, the latter almost immediately suffer a confusion as number 670 follows 699. It consists of remarks from MS-130-135 on the subject of the philosophy of psychology.

Most of the remarks in this typescript are in TS-228, but here they are rearranged in a subject-based order

Based on MSS-135-137

First part of a collection of cuttings that Wittgenstein kept in a box-file, later arranged by Peter Geach and pasted into two volumes. Many of the individual remarks are annotated by Wittgenstein. There are also editorial comments by Geach.

Continuation of TS-233a. Attached to the inside back cover is a pouch containing a number of remarks that were not pasted in to the volume

Based on remarks from MS-130, consecutively numbered. Together with a note from von Wright concerning the contents of a case of Wittgenstein manuscripts.

Consisting of pages removed from a copy of TS-210 and 211. Marked “Remarks edited from an early version of Philosophische Unter. Kept by R Rhees”. The pages include annotations and a manuscript remark by Wittgenstein

Consisting of fragments from pages 80 to 92 of TS-220. With a note by G H von Wright. Thought by von Wright to be ‘left-overs’ from the revision Wittgenstein made of TS-220

Consisting of a revision of pages 77 to 93

Revision of TS-220. Includes some cuttings pasted onto sheets

Consists of remarks from TS-221. With a note by G H von Wright

Based on MS-129. With a note by G H von Wright . This manuscript forms part of the preliminary work for the Philosophical Investigations in which most of the remarks in it appear, though not in the same order.

Consisting of pages from between pages 150 and 195 of the “Intermediate Version” of the Philosophical Investigations. With an envelope marked “The pages which W gave to GHvW in Cambridge (should eventually go to Trinity)”

The overlapping section of TSS-228 and 229

Consists of part of TS-244 and the whole of TS-229. With a note by G H von Wright . The pagination begins at p 134 GHvW suggests that this is a continuation of a revised item TS-228. The content of p 320 is supplied by photocopies from TS-229.

f. 1: Heading, 'Vol. I. Wittgenstein on Logic, April 1914. G E. Moore'.f. 15: Heading, 'Vol. II. W. on Logic, Ap. 1914. G. E. Moore'.f. 29: Heading, 'Vol III. W. on Login, Ap. 1914. G. E. Moore'.

Note by Brian McGuinness at top right, 'Transcript from Schlick's Shorthand by Mr Mazinger of Zürich 1967 BFMcG'.Headed 'Los blad in map "Wittgenstein"'.

MS notes at top, in pencil, 'Presented by BF McGuinness, May 1969'; in pen, '(Transcript of a sheet of M. Schlick's shorthand)'.Headed 'Los blad in map "Wittgenstein"'.

This copy - not a first generation copy - belonged to G H von Wright

This copy - not a first generation copy - belonged to G H von Wright