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836 [Doc. 310.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
It was then found that no. 1. had disappeared from the collection.
The remaining MSS. were at once returned to Stockholm in 1869 ;
but the above MS. remained undiscovered till 1874, when the editor
fortunately found it in one of the book-cases of the Swedenborg
Society. Since then it has been returned to the Academy of Sciences,
to whom it belongs. Respecting the place which this MS. occupies
among Swedenborg’s writings, see Document 313, no. 109.
"Codices 2 and 3.-Memorabilia."
Concerning these MSS. we read in the Original Catalogue of 1772
as follows : "no. 7. Vols. IV and V seem to contain in numbered para
graphs detached materials and memorabilia for the author’s theo
logical works; the numbers are so arranged, that the beginning is
wanting, yet on the last page of Vol. II they begin with no. 206,
[149] and then run backwards to no. 972, which is at about the middle
of the volume. The continuation follows in the middle of Vol. IV,
commencing with no. 973 , and proceeds to the end as far as
no. 1789 ; with no. 1790 the volume is afterwards commenced at the
beginning, and it runs on to no. 3427 in the middle of the volume.
This same collection from no. 3428 to no. 6093 is afterwards con
tinued in Vol. V."
It appears from this statement that nos. 149 to 1789 of these
"Memorabilia" were originally contained in "Vol. II," and nos. 1790
to 3427 in "Vol. IV" of the "THEOLOGICAL WORKS, no. 7," in the
Original Catalogue of 1772 (Document 304). These two portions,
that is, "Vol. IV," and as much of "Vol. II" as contained the be
ginning of the "Memorabilia," were afterwards bound into one volume
by A. Nordensköld, and on the back of that volume was inscribed,
"MEMORABILIA, Tom. I. II. 149-3427 ;" and in this form it con
stitutes "Codex 2" of the Official Catalogue which we are now
considering.
Of the contents of the original "Vol. IV," viz. of the "Memora
bilia" from nos. 973 to 3427, A. Nordensköld had a transcript made
which his brother C. F. Nordensköld took to England in 1783, and
which in 1786 he left in charge of Dr. William Spence (see p. 807) ;
and of this transcript M. Chastanier took a copy, which Miss Sibly
presented to the Swedenborg Society in 1841, after the death of
her father. The original volume, however, as re-bound by A. Norden
sköld, remained in Sweden, though it was not returned to the Academy
of Sciences until 1870. In 1843 Dr. A. Kahl (see p. 831) ascertained
that it had found its way into the library of the University at Upsal,
whence it was placed at the disposal of Dr. Im. Tafel in the same
year, for the purpose of having it printed. In its printed form it
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