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834 [Doc. 309.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
M.
SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF THE MISSING SWEDENBORG MSS.
If now we recapitulate the history of the eleven Sweden
borg MSS. which were missing from the Academy of Sciences
in 1841, and of which we gave a description in Subdivision A
of the present document, we find that the following nine MSS.
have since been restored to the Academy, viz. nos. 1, 2, 3, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 ; so that only nos. 4 and 11 require still to
be accounted for.
No. 4 appears in the Official Catalogue of the Academy as
"no. 50," and is there described as "An Index to the Concordia
Book," to which Björnstjerna (Document 307) makes this im
portant addition, "with several interesting matters Swedenborg
wrote just before his death ." These "interesting matters" were
copied under the superintendence of A. Nordensköld (by whom
the volume was borrowed from the Academy), and conveyed
to England by Wadström in 1788. This copy, through Chastanier,
reached the hands of the Rev. M. Sibly, and after his death
in 1840 , was, with other copies of MSS. , acquired by the
Swedenborg Society. At the end of this copy it is distinctly
stated by the copyist that it was copied by him from nos. 48
and 50 of the Swedenborg MSS. For further information re
specting the contents of this MS., see Document 310, Codex 50.
No. 11 is Volume II of Swedenborg’s Index to the earlier
volumes of the Arcana Calestia. The contents of nos. 9, 10,
11 , were likewise copied under the superintendence of A. Nor
densköld, and conveyed by his brother, C. F. Nordensköld, to
England in 1783.
This MS. was published in London in 1815, as a quarto
Volume, at the expense of J. A. Tulk, Esq.
The Swedenborg MSS. which were missing from the Aca
demy of Sciences in 1841 , are thus all satisfactorily accounted
for. Nine of these MSS. have been restored to the Academy,
and of the two that are still missing copies had been taken,
which have since been published.
The fate of Swedenborg’s correspondence which was like
wise entrusted by his heirs to the Academy of Sciences, will
be discussed in Document 312.
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