Identity area
Reference code
WITT/DT/309
Title
Copy of the "Blue Book"
Date(s)
- [1933-1934] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 volume (binder holding 124 typed ff. with 1 f. cover sheet).
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Received from Georg Henrik von Wright, Sept. 1992.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This copy - not a first generation copy - belonged to G H von Wright
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Earlier versions of the Blue Book that are available at Trinity College Library include Reuben Louis Goodstein's copy (Add.ms.a.407/5), volume 1 of G E Moore's copy (Add.ms.a.510), Robert Thouless's copy (Add.ms.a.522) and another copy (Add.ms.a.537). The Thouless copy is of particular interest due to the many annotations by Wittgenstein it contains.
Publication note
"The blue and brown books: Preliminary studies for the Philosophical investigations generally known as the blue and brown books" by Ludwig Wittgenstein. 2nd ed. Oxford : Blackwell, 1969