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Id ID
Catalog number Catalog number
Shelfmark Shelfmark
Incipit Incipit
Date Lower Bound Date Lower Bound
Date Upper Bound Date Upper Bound
Sender or Addressee Sender or Addressee
Place of dispatch Place of dispatch
ID of the correspondent in the "Gemeinsame Normdatei" ID of the correspondent in the "Gemeinsame Normdatei"
ID of the correspondent in the "Personen- und Korrespondenz-Datenbank der Leibniz-Edition" ID of the corresondent in the "Personen- und Korrespondenz-Datenbank der Leibniz-Edition"
Series in the academy edition Series in the Academy Edition in Arabic numerals
Volume Volume in the Academy Edition in Arabic numerals
track number Number in the Academy Edition
Excerpted Work The source from which Leibniz excerpts or paraphrases.
Text Text
Ordering Annotation An annotation from Leibniz for ordering his preliminary work on the Opus historicum, (in brackets a diplomatic transcription of Leibniz’s annotation).
Ordering Number Serial number
Sender Sender
Addressee Addressee
Date Date in the New, i.e. Gregorian Style, for example 23 February 1701 = 17010223 (in parentheses is the date in the Old, i.e. Julian style, in the event the manuscript was dated in this way by Leibniz or his correspondent).
Title Title
Prints outside the Academy Edition Prints outside the Academy Edition
Shorter mixed remarks Miscellaneous comments
Longer mixed remarks Longer miscellaneous comments
References to other text witnesses References to other text witnesses
Sub-number in the academy edition Sub-numbers of the printing in the Academy Edition and similar
Textual witness Textual witness, according to the ’origins’ (Überlieferung) of the text as described in the Academy Edition.
Format Format
Size (Pages/Columns) Size (in columns or pages)
Catalog Catalog
Text type How text has been transmitted: Abf. = dispatched; Abschr. = duplicate copy; Anm. = notes; Aufzeichn. = papers; Ausz(z). = extract(s); Bemerkg(n) = remark(s); eigh. = in own handwriting (Leibniz or correspondent); Erg. = supplements; ermitt. =inferred; Exz. = excerpt; Hd = hand; Konz. = draft; Korr. = corrections; MF = communicated form; MFF = communicated forms; Schr. = person writing; tlw.. = partly; unbek. = unknown; zs. = together; S = page(s); Z = line(s);
Manuscript used in the Academy Edition The Id of the manuscript that served as the manuscript for the Academy Edition. Not all reference manuscripts for the Academy Edition have been recorded.