Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
808 [Doc. 309.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
1
he asks Nordensköld, "What has become of those MSS. which
you left in the keeping of Mr. William Spence ? I hope the
Society took good care of them."
These MSS. consisted of the original MS. of the Apoca
lypsis Explicata, 3 vols., 4to, and of the following works,
which had been copied in Sweden under the superintendence
of A. Nordensköld : 1. Clavis Hieroglyphica, 2. Sensus Pro
pheticus, &c., 3. Swedenborg’s Index to the Apocalypsis Reve
lata, 4. The treatises on Divine Love and Divine Wisdom,
printed in Vol. IV of the Apocalypsis Explicata, 5. The five
Memorable Relations, which Wadström sent to London in 1785,
6. A copy of one of the volumes of Swedenborg’s Memora
bilia, viz., "Vol. IV of no. 7" in Document 304, which begins
with no. 973 and extends to no. 3427, to which was also added
a list of the heads of nos. 149 to 592, contained in " Vol. II
of no. 7,"* and 7. Swedenborg’s Index to the Arcana Calestia.
Nos. 2 and 7 of these MS. copies seem afterwards to have
passed into the hands of Mr. J. A. Tulk ; for they were
published at his expense in 1813 and 1815.
The subsequent history of the MS. of the Apocalypsis Ex
plicata is related in "The New Church Quarterly" for 1847,
Vol. I, pp. 66 and 67, in the following manner : "The expense
of publishing the Apocalypsis Explicata was ultimately defrayed
wholly by Mr. Peckitt, for although when it was first resolved
to put it to press he was associated with Dr. William Spence,
Mr. Robert Hindmarsh, and Mr. George Adams, in the risk,
to whom, as joint-editor, M. Chastanier was afterwards added ;
he was subsequently, as we have been informed by Mr. Hind
marsh himself, so well pleased with the work, that being in
good circumstances he relieved his friends from their share
of the responsibility, and took the whole expense upon him
self. Mr. Peckitt having done this, the entire impression of
250 copies was handed over to him, and the original manu
script also.
* M. Chastanier took a private copy of this part of Swedenborg’s Me
morabilia, viz., from no. 973 to no, 3427, which copy is now in the pos
session of the Swedenborg Society in London, and he states there that
this constitutes the "second volume of his friend Spence’s MS. copy from
Swedenborg."
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
