Wittgenstein's Nachlass. The Bergen Electronic Edition

The content of the CD-ROM has been divided into 4 sections: the introduction, diplomatic text, normalized text, and the index. There is a separate image disc which contains facsimile images of every page of text.

Introduction: The introduction gives information about the content of the CD-ROM (including details of editorial decisions and conventions used), a key to the text mark up, and acknowledgments.


Diplomatic text: The diplomatic text replicates the structure of Wittgenstein's text as closely as possible and includes his original text mark up and any coded text.  [Information Summary]

Normalized text: The normalized text incorporates Wittgenstein's amendments and is intended as a fully readable version with editorial corrections of, for example, spelling mistakes.  [Information Summary]

Index: The  index is a list by manuscript number of every page of text. Here the item numbers correspond to manuscript numbers as given by  von Wright in The Wittgenstein Papers. You can move to any page of manuscript by double-clicking on its index entry and going to the diplomatic or normalized text or to the facsimile of the required page.

Facsimiles: Photographs are available for every page of text and can be studied using an external image viewer. This allows you to zoom in or rotate the manuscripts to see them in greater detail, and to view them as documents, or in actual size. You can also browse the textual images and print them as required.  [Information Summary]