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Doc. 310.] 837
ANALYSIS OF STOCKHOLM MSS.
bears the title, Emanuelis Swedenborgii Diarium Spirituale," Part I,
Vols. 1 and 2 , Tübingen, 1844 and 1845. In 1870 , through the
exertions of the editor of these Documents, the original MS. volume
was restored to the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
"Codex 3," i. e. the original MS. volume containing Sweden.
borg’s "Memorabilia" from nos. 3428 to 6096, was conveyed to Eng
land by Mr. Wadström in 1788 ; and after becoming the subject of
a highly curious history, the particulars of which are related in Docu
ment 309 (pp. 310 to 317), it was finally restored to the Academy
of Sciences about 1845 in two handsome volumes bound in morocco.
This binding was done at the expense of the Swedenborg Society
of London. The following description of the original volume, as it
came into the hands of the Swedenborg Society, is contained in their
Report for 1841, p. 30: "The ’Diary’ had the mark ’V’ on the back
of the old parchment binding. It contains 494 pages, (besides 3
leaves at the end, containing 82 numbers, through which the pen is
run.) A fly leaf, counted as pages 1 and 2, contains some detached
Memoranda. Nearly all the paragraphs are numbered. The volume
commences with page 3, and no. 3428, and the numbers cease with
no. 6096, on page 488. There are frequently dates at the end of
a number; the first date is October 2, 1748, and occurs at no. 3440 ;
and the latest is January 22, 1762 at the end of no. 6019. This
work has a particular value and interest, being the journal of
Swedenborg’s daily thoughts on all the most interesting doctrines,
and of his communications with various eminent sects and individuals
in the spiritual world. The numbers are not arranged or classified,
nor are they expressed at great length; on the contrary, they seem
to have been intended as his faithful repository of truth and use
fulness, from which he might extract the materials for those noble
and conclusive doctrines, so well arranged and developed at length
in his published works. They, therefore, have a kind of veracity
impressed on them that is truly attractive."
Before this MS. volume was returned to the Academy of Sciences
in Stockholm, it was with its consent sent by the Swedenborg
Society of London to Dr. Im. Tafel in Tübingen for publication.
It was printed by him in 1843 and 1844 under the title, Eman.
Swedenborgii Diarium Spirituale, Parts II and III.
The morocco binding of the two volumes into which Codex 2 of
the "Memorabilia" was divided, was titled as follows : E. Sweden
borgii Diarium MS. On its return to Sweden this MS. therefore
bore the title of " Diarium," and not of " Memorabilia,
" wherefore
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