Meister Eckhart, Vol. 1 (Sermons and Treatises)

The impossibility of completing my edition of Meister Eckhart as :][uickly as it has been at various times desired and as I should Tiyself have liked to do, as well as the wish no longer to withhold from scholars the writings of one of the deepest thinkers of all dme, has decided me to publish in the meantime the portion :?ontamcd in the text. The second part, with literary-historical introduction, notes, glossary, and various additions and appendices, will follow as soon as I can spare the time from my new duties. , This first instalment contains, with the exception of a few short ) eees which I obtained only after it was printed, everything of ekhart’s which, during eighteen years of tireless research, I have :>een able to collect out of manuscripts and printed books. It is ittle enough compared with the works of Eckhart still known :o Tritheniius and of which he gives quite a long catalogue in his book De Scriptoribus Eedes, (s. Fabricii bibliotheca ccoles. llani-Durgh, 1718, fol. pag. 130) ; but on the other hand what I offer rierc is at least three times the amount of what has hitherto been known, and the teaching, the philosojihie systern of this remarkable Trian can now be presented in a more definite and complete form ^haii it was possible to do from the scanty and untrustworthy lata possessed before. In order to give an account of the means within my reach and It the same time to give the reader some idea of the extent and lifTiculty of my work, I append a list of the jirinted matter and nanu scripts used, together with a statement of their contents irranged and numbered to correspond with my edition. I. PARCHMENT MSS. 1. A. Strassburg, stadtbibliothek, A. 98. 1 tth cent.…