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Doc. 313.] 977
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
Bibliothek," published by Dr. J. A. Ernesti in Leipzig, from 1760-1769.
The review is contained in no. 6 of Vol. I, and extends from
pp. 803-810.
The first public notice of the Arcana Calestia, and the five
other treatises published in 1758, with Swedenborg named as their
author, appeared in Sweden in 1763, in a work entitled, Anvisning
til et Utvaldt Theologiskt Bibliothek (Aid towards the formation of
a select theological Library), by S. J. Alnander. On the authority
of Alnander the " Svenska Mercurius" for January, 1764, likewise
proclaimed Swedenborg the author of these works (see Docu
ment 283, A, no. 2).
In 1765 Prelate Etinger182 translated portions of the memorable
relations appended to the chapters of the Arcana Calestia, Vol. I,
and published them in a work entitled : " Swedenborg’s und Anderer
irdische und himmlische Philosophie" (Terrestrial and heavenly
Philosophy of Swedenborg and others), Frankfort and Leipzig, 1765.
The first translation of this work, prepared by the Rev. J. Clowes ,
appeared in Manchester in twelve volumes, from 1782-1806.
The first draught copy of the Arcana Coelestia, beginning at
Genesis, chapter xvi, i. e. from Vol. II to the end, has been preserved
among Swedenborg’s MSS. , where it constitutes Codices 8-10, 15-26,
and 80, and fills 5875 pages, oblong folio. The clean copy for the
printer in London, he forwarded by post from Stockholm, after his
return home in 1750.
A reprint of the Arcana Coelestia, in the original Latin, Dr.
Im. Tafel saw through the press from 1833 to 1842. In this edition
the editor carefully pointed out all the errata, which he noticed in
the original edition, and which are rather numerous, on account of
the author not having been able to read the proof sheets himself (see
Document 5, no. 37, p. 43). The editor of these Documents, during
his stay in Stockholm from 1868 to 1870, compared carefully many
of the errata pointed out by Dr. Im. Tafel, with the first draught
copy in the Library of the Academy of Sciences, and is able to
declare that none of these errors occur in the copy written by Sweden
borg’s own hand; wherefore they must be regarded as having been
introduced by the printer, and not by the author.
For further particulars respecting this first draught copy of the
Arcana Cœlestia, see Document 310, Codices 8-10.
1748 to 1750. (96.) Memorabilium pars tertia, ("Memora
bilia," Part III), in MS. In the printed copy it fills 372
pages, 8vo.
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