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2. The Story ofTHE SWEDENBORG MANUSCRIPTS S. C. EllY THE NEW-CHURCH PRESS NEW YORK 3. orters.r - The ," Apocal)1)se Explain~) reproduced in thisseries is the first draft preserved in the Library of the" ---~Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and not the manuscript codices carried to England and afte7ward u~dby Dr. Immanuel Tafel in publishing his Latin edition.r:;, """ fV:ffi Lmakes Volume~ (pp. 480)~(pp. 450), andXVIjl(pp. 503) of the Phototyped Autograph Edition.he same supporters concur in the work as thoseproducing the Arcana, and the imprint and date arEi.thesame. 56 68. THE STORY OF THE SWEDENBORG MANUSCRIPTS The last volume (Volume(XVIEi1 pp. 618) o~ thephototyped manuscripts is ~lCI (_~~[iscell~nea TheoTogica~ It contains a document on Marriage ~itteninTffi6, sorne observations on Calvin dating from 1769,a~emorabilia us~d i!! Swedenborgs "True Christian Religion," of the year 1770; a -little treatise, a~-series of papers described as "Philosophica et TheolQgica, " written in the years from 1734 to 1741; - - - ---"The Hieroglyphic Key" (1742), and an index to the"A~oca!ypse Revealed." These make a volume of 588p~s, and the original intention seems to have bee!1( to conclu~e the volume at this stage-; but beginning atPage 590 is added the little codex containing Sweden---borgs dreams in 1743 and 1744 that h~been discovered and reclaimed by Mr. Klemming and added to thecollecti~ of the Royal Library. This brings the pagingof the phototyped volume up to _618, but no mention of--this "Dream Book" is made in tne table of contents.The general title of the whole series from Volume l toVolume XVIII inclusive is "Emanuelis SwedenborgAutographa Ed. Phototypica." Manuscripts of Swedenborg Remaining Unreproduced.The eighteen volumes of phototypes described in the - immediately preceding paragraphs faH little short of . being the complete fulfillment of the task undertaken in 1910. However, there are still several manuscripts67 69. THE STORY OF THE SWEDENBORG MANUSCRIPTS falling under the same head that have not been reproduced. They may be classified as theological corre spondence, notes on various subjects, errata, etc. Al, single thin volume will suffice to incorporate aIl these theological fragments.- - -1 In addition, many manuscripts of a scientific and ( philosophicall!.ature remain unreproduced. Mr. Stroh, 1 at the instance of the Swedenborg Scientific Associaltion, caused to be copied many thousands of pages of this description written in Swedenborgs hand, which with the exce:R.tion qiJhaJxeatise "De Sale" ~ o1 fl!! ..!!f.ver been_pubfu.!1ed, the Stroh copies being pre servedin the archives of the Scientific Association in~ Bryn Athyn, Pa. Among these scientific and philosoph ical manuscripts of which phototypes have not been mad may be Iisted: "Opsc~la PhilosophIca," ;:-gen e;; title covering a collection of papers that has been0 published as "PltY~iological Trapsactions"; "A_~i Jo,. losophers Notebook" and "The~n," both in procJo.ess-of translation in The N ew_ PhilosolLhy, the organ" of the Scientific Association; "Generation" and" The~Senses;"-- both in-E~glish editio~sI;iblished by tM S"weaenborg Scientific Association, and both also printed in Latin in 1845 by Dr. Immanuel Tafel; ).,)Q -- " Anatomic.al, Cosmological, and Mathematical Notes" ; the "~rn~ or Itinerary," published in an English 1 translatIon DY the AQemy of the N~w Church in 1916;~ 68-- - freatises on "Silver," "Sulphur," and "Salt," the 70. THE STORY OF THE SWEDENBORG MANUSCRIPTS Latin text of the last published by the Scientific Asso ciation; others on "Vitriol;- and "The-.Ml:l.gpet," and ~ >.. "Scientifical and Political Papers." It is estimated ~ that the whole of this work would cover about ~500 pages in the phototyped reproduction. It is interest ing to note that efforts are afoot to reproduce these,manuscripts by photostat,1astill simpler mode of transcrib~it~xts ~ither ph.ot.2liihQgrM>l!.ing or1 pho~ng.l In fact, Mr. Acton oTBryn Athyn has akady pho.iost{!-ted "A Philos-?pher s Notebook, "(" Generation, " "The Fibre," and one or two other small codices. --The project in~10 included the publication of Swe .denborgLtheQloglllal corIespondence. This has not been done, although proofsh.eets have been taken of( IllQst oi the letters written to Dr. _B~yer, a contempo rary champion of Swedenborgs teaching.A great many isolated documents in Swedenborgs- hand, sueh as letters, memoranda, and annotations, still unreproduee"{f,"" are scattered -in various public and rivate libraries in many cities, particularly Stock- h.Q.!!p., Up~a, Linkoping, Lond~n, Birmin-zha!llt Len~ grad, Cambridge, Mass., ~ew York, Chicagg, and at Bryn AthYJJ.~ome of these documents have sufferedsundry vicissitudes through auetion sales and at the hands of persons whose interests have rangedj:rom those of the blggaining trgtJficker to those of the purescholar. It is also certaip. t~~t a number of similar59 71. THE SroRY OF THE SWEDENBORG MANUSCRIPTScasual papers known to be genuine were at first misplaced and at length lost.-~--Catalogues of CollectiomOf Swedenborgs Marmscripts. Various catalogues have been made of Swedenborgsmanuscripts. The first of them was prep~red under"L"l t~e directiQILQLhis heirs, a copy accompanying thecollection of man~c-rlpts when deposited by them inthe Library of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. This was mainly an external description of theitems of the collection made for purposes of practicalidentification. In 1782 A. J. Pernety published a list of the manuscripts in the Academys Library. It is chiefly interesting as showing the limited acquaintance of the firststudents with the contents of the manuscripts, thewriter supposing the more important of the manuscripts to be identical with the printed books with thesame titles and confusing "Apocalypsis Explicata"with "Apocalypsis Revelata." The copy for this cat ~ alogue was sent to Mr. Pernety by AEgustus Norden skj~!SL His description applies ta the state of the manuscripts before he had them properly bound. This catalogue cavers only the theological manuscripts, Mr.Nordenskjold evincing at that time no great interest 60 -in the scientific writings of Swedenborg. The compiler ---. 72. THE STORY OF THE SWEDENBORG MANUSCRIPTSstates that when certain.-?f these manuseripts had b~nsent from London to Stockholm after Swedenborgsdeath, two Swedish bi~hops, a:rno;g--the-~uthors immediate famY connectIons: wished to th;ow the~ into thefi!~. Three years later, in1785, B: Chast~r published a list of Swedenborgs manuscripts which alsocame from Augustus Nordenskjilds pen. In 1787 the Academy of_Sciences made its own firstcatalogue of the Swedenborg manuscripts in its Li _._brary. This was written by Johan Bjirnstierna at the-suggestion of the" Philanthropie Exegetic Society" ofStockholm. The manuscript of this catalogue is preserved in the Royal Library. The catalogue is incorporated in Dr. Tafels "Documents Concerning Swedenborg. " It is divided into four parts-eoveringfourteen items in large oblong folio, twenty-nine inquarto, and five in octavo, making ninety-eight in aH. An official catalogue of Swedenborgs manuscriptsmade for the R..9y~1 Swedish Academy of Sciences wasprepared by J. C. Wilcke, wlo was seeret;;y for theAcademy from 1784 to 1796. This catalogue recognizesthe generosity of Mr. Nordenskjild in having the man uscripts in great part bound at his own expense registers/ the borrowings of Director Wadstrim, notes several unexplained excisions, and remarks that "Mr.N:ordenskjild will have to account for aH the MSS.that may be missing." Fifty years later, in 1841, Jacob Berzelius, known61--- 73. THE STORY OF THE SWEDENBORG MANUSCRIPTS as the fathe1 of modern chemistry, and who was secre taly to the Academy of Sciences from 1818 until his death in 1848, made a critical inventory of "the Swe denborgian deposit" in the Library of the Academy, c~ecktp.g ~Rt~o_Ill~ts with the official catalogue pre pared by Ml. Wilcke and with the original catalogue of the hei1s. Many omissions were noted, not only show ing thaUlle kp.o,!n missing volumes haq :qot y~t ~n returned, but that - sorne volumes described in the original catalogue had not been mentioned in that of Wilcke. Baron Berzelius afterward became consP2 uously active in ~lJ-e return of the lost manuscripts to the Library of the Academy of Sciences. In his corre spondence with the Swedenborg Society in London he notes that, in view of the loss of manuscripts not at that t~e recovered, the Royal Swedish Academy ofSciences h.ad deter~ed that it would never "a~()w any. of the ma_m~_s cripts of Swedenborg to_be carri~d out of the Library; and whoever wishes to study or copy them must submit to do so in the reading-room1of the Library, under the particular inspection of the Librarian. " It is to be noted that this policy is not rigorously adhered to, as manuscripts have occa sionaUy been taken out, but only under propel and adequate guarantees.In his "Documents Concerning Swedenborg" D~.L~Taf~1 gives a careful compilation of aU the works of 62 74. THE STORY OF THE SWEDENBORG MANUSCRIPTSSwedenborg, published or unpublished, known at thatdate. The ~ev. J ~Hy.~e, of England, in his "Bibliography of the vVorks of Emanuel Swedenborg," supplies with amazing minuteness and accuracy the titlepage information concerning aIl the manuscripts andtheir reproductions, together with published originalsand the translations into manifold languages, down tothe year 1906.In 1910 Alfred H.. S.troh and Greta Ekelf compiled .-.--~and published in Sweden "An Abridged ChronologicalList of the vVorks of Emanuel Swedenborg, includingManuscripts, Original Editions, and TranslationsPrior to 1772"-the year of Swedenborgs death. Inthe same year as this collaboration Miss Ekelf, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Swedish Academy ofSciences, wrote, as a fittin~ souvenir for the International Swedenborg Congress meeting at London, ahistory of the Swedenborg manuscripts and an account. of their present location. The Swedenborg Society ofLondon was organized for the specifie purpose of perpetuating Swedenborgs works, and Miss Ekelfs paper of aIl the addresses presented to the Congresswas the one most appropriate to and characteristic of 1. the Societys purpose; yet the editor of the Transac1tions of the Congress, with amusing navet, says therewas no time to read it at any session of the Congress,and published it in smaller type as an appendix. 63 75. THE STORY OF THE SWEDENBORG MANUSCRIPTS Bulk of Manuscripts In Four Libraries In Swedenborgs Native Land. Of the present whereabouts of the manuscripts ofSwedenborg Miss Ekelof writes: "Investigations madein Sweden and othercountries have shown that, so faras we know, aIl the manuscript volumes by Swedenborgwhich are now extant are to be found in his nativecountry. The manuscripts in Swedenborgshandwriting which are still extant are kept in four-1 _ different libraries in Sweden-the Libr~y of the l - Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, th3L~oy~l Lis - br~r:Y, th~ Staj;e J-~chiv~(!:~~~~~!~i!,:et), aIl in Stock1 - - _.-.--.- __ holm, and the Diocesan Library at Linkoping. ._---, .Of theselibraries, that of the Royal Academy has by far thelargest number of volumes-more than eighty. Inother places, both in Sweden and in other countries,there are letters, memorials, and fragm~nts of works,but no large volume or important work."--~I!.2.~ .Jl~.t~iJy~ considering the temporary dispersionof so many manuscripts, t~e story mighl.-ha~e been _very different_ i~.Jllustrated by a fugitive page pre-, served in the Bath New Church Library in Ellgillnd. It is an unmistakable autograph page of Swedenborgs, clipped from a codex, trimmed, and pasted onthe back of a frontispiece picture of Swedenborg, in acopy of the first English translation of "Heaven andHell," containing an introduction by the Rev. Thomas64 76. THE STORY OF THE SWEDENBORG MANUSCRIPTS 1 Hartley and having been printed in London in 1778. The subject_matter ~eems to pro~e that it is a fragment of the lost first volume of the "Memorabilia." The d~te "17j7," written on the fragment, would confirm this supposition. The volume containing the pa~ of ~u~crint belong~d successively to different owners, [ and was eventually presented to the Bath Library for 1 permanent preservation.Of the two works known to have been in existence at the time of Swedenborgs death, but now lost (" Thert 1 ~~- ( D~ams from 1737 to 1739" anorgsp!lilos0.pl.!y, and he was wont to declare that he had ..!!,.otthe sli~htest concern f~r the J!laJ!!1er in which Sweden-borg came ~y hi~wealth of new perception. Moststudents like to understand the methods of their en-lightenment, and it is not unthinkable that eventuallythe competent student will fmd Swedenborg himself asinteresting and illuminating as any of his productions.71 83. IND EX A"Brain, The," 58British Museum, 1"Abridged Chronological Listof the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg," 63 cAcademy of the New Church, Calvin, 5748,51, 58"Canons," 20, 27, 36, 37Acton, Alfred, 59Cartesianism in Sweden, 5"Adversaria," 18, 31, 34, 40, 55,Catalogues of Swedenborg 56 Manuscripts, 60Ahlstrand, J. A., 43 Chandler, Horace P., 68, 69 "Anatomical, Cosmological and Charles XII, 12, 13, 14, 23 Mathematical Notes," 58 Charnwood, Lord, 1 "Angelic Wisdom ConcerningChastanier, Benedict, 27, 28, 61 Marriage," 20 College of Mines, 12, 13, 14, 16 "Apocalypse Explained," 8, 19,Concordance, 49 20, 25, 47, 56, 60"Conjugial Love," 46, 65 "Apocalypse Revealed," 19, 57, .. "Consummation of the Age," 21 60"Conversation with Angels," 27 "Arcana Coelestia," 18, 19, 32,"Conversations with Calvin," 21 33, 36, 40, 56"Coronis," 21, 24, 27, 37, 65 Asplundh, C. Hj., 50 "Athanasian Creed," 20, 27, 35 D "Autographa," 51, 57"Daedalus Hyperboreus," 12, 23 "De Amore Conjugiali," 20 B"De Sale," 58 Bath New-Church Library, 64, "Description of the Mode in 65 Which Marble Slabs Are InBayley, Jonathan, 41 laid for Tables and Other Behm, Albrecht, 11Ornaments," 20, 21 Behm, Sarah, 11"Dialogue Between Mechanica Benade, William H., 44and Chymica," 13 Benzelius Ericus, 11, 12, 45 "Diarium Spirituale," 40, 51, 55 Berg, Abraham, 22"Dicta Probantia," 40 Berzelius, Jacob, 61, 62 "Divine Love" 20 25 46 Beyer, Dr., 59 "Divine Wisdom," 20, 25, 46 "Bibliography of the Works of "Doctrine of Charity," 27, 46 Emanuel Swedenborg," 9, 63 "Documents Concerning Swe Bigelow, John, 47 denborg," 43, 61, 62 Bjornstierna, Johan, 61"Dream Book," 57 Bodleian Library, 2 "Dreams from 1737 to 1739," 65 73 84. IN DEX E1Early scientific manuscripts, 12 "Index Biblicus," 27, 31, 34, 40,Educative setting of Sweden54,55borgs times, 5"Index to Concordia Pia," 37,Ekelof, Greta, 38, 63, 64 38Eleonora, Queen, 14International Swedenborg ConEmerson, Ralph Waldo, 4, 6, 67 gress in London, 54, 63Ennoblement of Swedberg "Invitation to the New Church,"family,1421,27"Extraction of Silver and Cop "ltinerarium," 40per, The," 13"Itineraria et Philosophica," 46 F J"Faith of the Reformed DerivedJames, Henry, 71from the Roman Catholic James, William, 3, 70Church," 21 Journal of Travel, 35, 40, 58"Fibre, The," 59"Justification and Good Works,"Filenius, Bishop, 6521Fire in Stockholm, anecdote of,66K"First Principles of NaturalKahl, A. H., 29Things," 13 Kant, Immanuel, 65"Five Memorable Relations," 20, Kings adjudication concerning36the Swedenborg Manuscripts,"Fundamentalphilosophie," 4022 Klemming, G. E., 35, 43, 57 GLGeneral Conference, 41"Last Judgment and the Spirit.General Convention, 40, 41, 44, ual World," 2748-51,56Lewis, John, 32"Generation," 58Life in Stockholm as a man of"Generative Organs," 39 aifairs, 14"Geometrica et Algebraica," 13Linkoping, Diocesan Library of,Greek Religion, manuscript on,12,45,6455Linn,6 "Lord, The," 20, 27, 36 HHabit of making indexes, 30MHartley, Thomas, 64, 65"Magnet, The," 13, 59"Heaven and Hell," 19, 64Manuscripts donated to RoyalHebrew,18Swedish Academy of Sciences,"Hieroglyphic Key," etc., 17,25, 2157 Manuscripts remaining unrepro Hindmarsh, Robert, 25, 47duced,57House in Hornsgatan, 16, 21"Marriage," 21Hyde, Rev. James, 9, 63Marriage, document on, 5774 85. INDEX"Mathematica et Principia RePhotostat, 59rum Naturalium," 46Phototyping, beginning of, 48Mausoleum for Swedenborg "Physiological Transactions,"erected in Cathedral of Up 58sala, 54 Plato, 4, 6MeNab, D. R., 30 Polhem, Christopher, 13, 14Memorabilia, 18, 26-31, 57, 65 "Posthumou.s Trac,ts," 39Messiter, Dr., 65"Precepts of the Decalogue," 20"Miscellanea Anatomica et Phi "Prophets and Psalms," 25, 48losophica," 46"Miscellanea Physica et MineraRlogica," 45Range and scope of literary pro "Miscellanea Theologica," 46, 57 duction,9"Regnum Animale," 4, 16, 17, N39,40,46National Diet of Sweden, 14"Remission of Sins," 37Neuburger, Max, 52 Retzius, Gustav, 52"New Philosophy, The," 58Revival of interest in Sweden Nordenskjold, Augustus, 24, 25,borgs unpublished manu 32, 60, 61 scripts, 38Nordenskjold, C. F., 24, 25, 27, Rotch, Lydia, 4129,36Rotch trustees, 42, 56Royal Library in Stockholm, 13, o35, 36, 37, 43, 57, 61Royal Society of Literature, 1, 2"conomia Regni Animalis," 16Royal Swedish Academy of"conomia Regni AnimalisSciences, Library of, 1, 2, 13,Transactio III," 3915, 18, 19, 22, 2638, 43, 52,"Opera Philosophica et Min53, 56, 60-64eralia," 12, 15, 23Rylands Collection, 2"Opuscula Philosophica," 58"Opuscula Quredam ArgumentiPhilosophici," 39 s"Opusculu"m de Cultu et Amore "Sacred Scripture," 20Dei," 46"Salt," 58"Outlines of a PhilosophiealSchmidiuss Latin Bible, 35, 45Argument on the Infinite,""Scientific and Political Papers,"etc., 1758 "Senses, The," 58P Shakspeare, William, 4Paul, 4 Shearsmith, Richard, 21Peckitt, Henry, 25Sheringsson, R., 35Pernety, A. J., 60"Slver," 58Philanthropie Exegetic Society, "Spiritual Diary," 18, 26, 29, 30,6131, 33, 40, 49, 50"Philosophers Notebook," 58, 59 "Spiritual World," 20"Philosophica et Theologica," 57 Stroh, Alfred H., 50, 51, 52, 54,Photolithographs, publication of, 55, 58, 6344, 45Suffolk Galleries, 1 75 86. INDEX"Sulphur," 58 Tafel, Rudolf L., 26, 30, 33, 42,"Sulphur and Pyrites," 13 44, 47, 48, 68, 69"Summaria Expositio," etc., 49"Transactionum de Cere bro"Summary Doctrine of the NewFragmenta," 46Church," 21 "True Christian Religion," 21,"Summary Exposition," etc., 20, 37,5736Tbingen, University of, 40, 42Sweden, 6, 11, 12 Tulk, John Augustus, 25Swedberg, Jesper, 11 USwedenborg Association, 39Upsala, University Library of,Swedenborg Printing and Pub- 29,30,34lishing Society, 56Swedenborg Scientific Associa- Vtion, 50, 51, 58, 59Swedenborg Society of London, "Vitriol," 13, 591, 26, 28, 36, 37, 40, 41, 47, 50, W54-56, 62, 63Swedenborgs Almanac for 1752,Wadstrom, Berns, 26, 27, SO, 36.35 61Swedenborgs death, 21, 37Wargentin, 24Swedenborgs drafts of hisWashington University, 42books, 15 White, William, Life of Sweden-"Swedenborgs Dreams," 35borg,41"Swedenborgs Drmmar," 35 Whitehead, John, 68Swedenborgs heirs, 21Why the manuscripts should beSwedenborgs remains removed in the great libraries, 3ta Upsala, 53 Wilcke, J. C., 61, 62Wilkinson, James John Garth, 4,Swedish Church in London, 5339Worcester, Samuel, 47 T"Worship and Love of God," 16,Tafel, Immanuel, 18, 26, 28, 29,17,35,463D, 33, 34, 36, 40, 42, 56, 58Wrttemburg, King of, 40 76 87. =