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.
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