C. pe B. EVANS

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1947
First published 1924 Second impression 1947
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PREFACE
THE impossibility of completing my edition of Meister Eckhart as quickly as it has been at various times desired and as I should myself 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 time, has decided me to publish in the meantime the portion contained 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 pieces which I obtained only after it was prifited, everything of Eckhart’s which, during eighteen years of tireless research, I have been able to collect out of manuscripts and printed books. It is little enough compared with the works of Eckhart still known to Trithemius and of which he gives quite a long catalogue in his